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Example sentences for "then slowly"

  • He stood a moment at gaze, his attitude haughty, his face expressionless; then slowly he advanced.

  • Then slowly, as the eyes became accustomed to it, this gloom was gradually relieved.

  • Then slowly of his sorrow resentment was begotten, and being begotten it grew rapidly until it filled his mind and whelmed in its turn all else.

  • I looked at this stranger again and yet again, then slowly walked up and held out my hand.

  • Then slowly I realized what I held in my hand.

  • Then slowly he kneeled down, and so died, with his forefeet doubled under him.

  • His face was a picture of utter astonishment as he fell lightly to the floor--then slowly it changed, and took on a chagrined smile--he understood!

  • For an instant it hung motionless, perched perilously in the air, its tail jutting out over the little valley, then slowly, majestically it sank, to strike with a reverberating crash that shattered the heavy armor plate!

  • At last they reached the absolute ceiling of the smaller ship, and it hung there while the Solarite went a few miles higher; then slowly, but ever faster and faster they were plunging ahead, gathering speed.

  • Then slowly drawing a scrap of needlework from her pocket, she began to sew hastily.

  • Then slowly, so slowly that at first he thought his eyes deceived him, the shroud began to thin, and a grey light to grow in what he knew must be the east.

  • Then slowly returned to the matter at hand.

  • Then slowly he turned and entered the large, bare bedroom.

  • For a space they galloped neck to neck; then slowly, almost imperceptibly, Clodagh drew away.

  • Lon whips out his revolver and aims at the ghost, then slowly returns it to the holster, as he realizes the futility of the move.

  • Then slowly, she plays the same melody she hummed previously.

  • He stops and shakes his head, then slowly whistles a few more bars of the refrain, starting where he just left off, and letting himself drop into the morris chair on the descending note in the fifth bar.

  • Then slowly, she moves back to the desk, drops the cards into a drawer and locks it.

  • Then slowly he sank from view, and Tommy followed him.

  • Then slowly a somber twilight began to fall, and Axelson rose.

  • Then slowly it moved, settling gradually into oblivion.

  • Then slowly he raised his head and looked full at Constance Palliser.

  • Then slowly he turned, leaden-footed, head hanging, and ascended the stairs once more to the room where his wife had been.

  • Then slowly, lids still sealed with desperate white hands, her head sank backward.

  • For some moments after he had finished reading that letter, Jay Gardiner sat like one stunned; then slowly he read it again, as though to take in more clearly its awful meaning.

  • Then slowly, comfortably, a little ashamed, we jogged on, in the mood of men and horses when danger is over.

  • Then slowly my eyes opened and beheld Bilkins looking down at me, in my own stateroom, where my clothes were lying as I had thrown them off the night before.

  • Then slowly we passed on and sat by the fort, leaning our backs against it; in meditation looking across the prairie that had become so changed a place to us.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cents each; determining the; medical students; scrofulous disease; then being; then bishop; then called; then certainly; then drain; then from; then gave; then home; then look; then looked; then made; then marched; then proceed; then put; then quickly; then replied; then rode; then sent; then strain the liquor; then take out the; then the priest shall pronounce him; then throw