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Example sentences for "uncomfortably"

Lexicographically close words:
uncoloured; uncombed; uncombined; uncomely; uncomfortable; uncomforted; uncommitted; uncommon; uncommonly; uncommunicative
  1. Whereupon that astute financier subsided promptly, evincing no further curiosity as to the poetic attainments of this uncomfortably straight-speaking young personage.

  2. Ken looked at him with a new understanding; this was a different man from the white-lipped one who had writhed so uncomfortably beside him the night before.

  3. He disposed of it like a judge ruling out an improper objection; returned to matters less uncomfortably energetic: "Curious.

  4. They stepped uncomfortably from the safety of the plank platform and, balancing on their toes, taking cautious strides, ventured along the road.

  5. What exhausted her was the sight of Bea and Olaf turned into flaccid invalids, uncomfortably flushed after taking food, begging for the healing of sleep at night.

  6. It was not to eat shell-fish in public that he had consented to dine uncomfortably on a sandheap.

  7. We threw up breastworks after the assault, uncomfortably close to the enemy and are well fortified, but not in as naturally a strong position as the enemy.

  8. The weather is getting uncomfortably warm; no need of fire any more on picket.

  9. Almon Clark; quarters in a house near the fort; men are without quarters; have never seen the regiment so uncomfortably fixed.

  10. Her tastes were as delicately discriminative as Katherine's, but lacked that metallic assurance of which lately Peter had become rather uncomfortably aware.

  11. Odd had made it feel uncomfortably swollen and unwieldy, and the Captain's conscience was, by nature, slim and flexible.

  12. Lydia, whose cheeks were burning and whose eyes were deep with unshed tears, twisted her hands uncomfortably and looked at Billy.

  13. Lucy Rose merely wondered uncomfortably what the others thought of Aunt Cyrilla's basket.

  14. Nevertheless, he wondered uncomfortably what made Cousin Myra smile so queerly.

  15. These were the dreamy surmisings with which he rode slowly toward the house, and a few good resolutions in a nebulous state hovered uncomfortably about him.

  16. But her heart beat uncomfortably fast as the door opened, and Mark Winnington entered.

  17. The impression left upon her by Winnington's personality was uncomfortably strong.

  18. She looked pale, and her eyes were uncomfortably mystified.

  19. The young man flushed, moving uncomfortably in his chair, as though yearning to get away from his questioner, and yet not knowing exactly how.

  20. But to evil-doers, it loomed uncomfortably in the background.

  21. But he swerved his horse, and the buffalo, plunging past, charged Ferris and followed him as he made off over the broken ground, uncomfortably close to the tired pony's tail.

  22. But one is so uncomfortably intelligent, one can't stop thinking, thinking every minute.

  23. Again, an avaricious lover might, with some difficulty, secure both horse and rider, but he could hardly travel far with an unwilling girl and a stolen horse, without becoming uncomfortably conspicuous.

  24. Perching themselves uncomfortably upon the extreme edges of two chairs, near together but remote from me, they blinked and stared perseveringly, until I broke the silence and set them at their ease by commencing a lively conversation.

  25. With this encouragement, a little washed-out looking woman slipped uncomfortably in, six children of various degrees of awkwardness stumbling after her, studiously avoiding the outstretched hands of the receiving committee.

  26. He perched uncomfortably upon the railing and opened fire at once.

  27. She was uneasily conscious of Tom's shrewd observation, which was uncomfortably keen to live with; and she saw very little of the man who had been her daily companion for the last three months.

  28. Lorelei felt herself flushing uncomfortably under the stares of the onlookers, and, glad to escape, she moved away beside the undisturbed cause of all the furore.

  29. As to just what effect her unrestrained spleen would have, or in which direction it might work the greatest damage, he was uncomfortably in doubt.

  30. Who does not know the look of the clever man in society, conscious of a large banking account, but uncomfortably conscious also that, like Goldsmith, he has not a sixpence of ready money?

  31. The great monsoon clouds were left behind, and the sun shone with a power which brought the temperature up to 82° in the shade, and made it quite uncomfortably hot at midday, though at night there were 4° of frost.

  32. He had only been twisted uncomfortably to one side, just as a toy brick is sometimes seen standing up here and there in the midst of surrounding wreck.

  33. Tim," said Bob, after twenty minutes had passed, "I wonder if the two or three dozen people on this platform are all as uncomfortably impatient as I am.

  34. For two weeks and some days he thought, flushing uncomfortably whenever he met that watery but contemptuous eye.

  35. Then she shivered though the glowing fire in the grate was making the room almost uncomfortably warm.

  36. Owen moved uncomfortably on his chair, frowned, snapped his fingers softly and finally admitted that he did not know.

  37. Four, five, or even six other grooms stood uncomfortably huddled together on a seat or slab at the back.

  38. Another variety, named uncomfortably the dioropha, was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncomfortably" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.