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Example sentences for "unostentatiously"

Lexicographically close words:
unornamented; unorthodox; unorthodoxy; unos; unostentatious; unowned; unoxidized; unpack; unpacked; unpacking
  1. The first impression they must have received from the miracle was, no doubt, simple amazement at the power which so easily and unostentatiously turned the water into wine.

  2. The people found it difficult to believe this, because He had slowly and unostentatiously grown up like any other man.

  3. There were Rodens to right of us, Rodens to left of us: in a field behind us, unostentatiously smoking Virginia cigarettes, loitered a watchful Roden bodyguard.

  4. The Seraph, arm-in-sling, hung unostentatiously on the outskirts of the crowd, and with much hesitation summoned courage to ask if she could spare him one to sit out.

  5. Don't you think the best thing we can do is to stroll down to the cutter, fill your tummy on corned horse there, and help me slip moorings unostentatiously after dark?

  6. To the skipper of this craft he betook himself, and bargained to be set down unostentatiously in Minorca.

  7. As yet I had had no opportunity of observing him properly, but now as unostentatiously as possible I commenced to study it.

  8. Soon after eleven o'clock two dark figures slipped unostentatiously out of the back door, and a moment later a third followed them.

  9. The chauffeur remained in the car, keeping his face unostentatiously concealed.

  10. If he heard her express a desire, it was unostentatiously gratified within twenty-four hours.

  11. He set out as unostentatiously as possible.

  12. He slipped quietly and unostentatiously into his seat.

  13. The Hawk, therefore, was unostentatiously attentive to MacVightie's movements; so much so that, when No.

  14. There were several other customers at the long counter, but the stool beside the owner of the ten-dollar bill was vacant--and the Hawk unostentatiously straddled it.

  15. Each afternoon we creep unostentatiously into subterranean burrows, while our respective gunners, from a safe position in the rear, indulge in what they humorously describe as "an artillery duel.

  16. Very unostentatiously we rode out of Soissons, steering a northwesterly course.

  17. At Serracauld's approach, he had moved unostentatiously away.

  18. Reaching the courtyard of the station, she unostentatiously hailed a hansom, and, having given her new address to the cabman, took her seat.

  19. Yes, yes," I should say rather hastily, as they pointed out the Great Wall to me, and I should lead the way unostentatiously but quite definitely towards Japan.

  20. But there was something so unostentatiously commanding in the calm manner of the man, that the Captain, though astounded, did not in any way reprimand him.

  21. Twas not so unostentatiously done but that Mr. Carvel and I marked it.

  22. Yet we have to recount the fact that, quietly as these two had entered Bagdad, unostentatiously as they had made their way through the streets, much as they had sought to escape observation, yet one at least had watched their coming.

  23. The two men gripped hands most cordially and firmly, and then Major Joseph Douglas turned on his heel and strode from the roof of the fortress, just as quietly and unostentatiously as he had strolled into the mess bungalow.

  24. When the war came and all the men were called to the front, women unostentatiously stepped into the employments left vacant.

  25. Then relocking the door behind his visitor and unostentatiously slipping the key into his pocket, he sat down at the desk, waved Merriman to a chair, and producing a box of cigars, passed it across.

  26. At the same time Willis unostentatiously followed, and presently saw Archer vanish into the first-class refreshment room.

  27. If our boat happened to be on the surface when it sighted the German, which, however, was very seldom the case, the first manoeuvre was to dive as quickly and as unostentatiously as possible.

  28. The Rabbi unostentatiously withdrew it beyond his easy reach, looking at Yankele the while.

  29. He carried the manuscript unostentatiously about in a long brief bag, while the book was writing, and worked at it during all his spare moments.

  30. When she was late, as she usually was, she slid unostentatiously into the back row--if possible at the end where she could look out the window.

  31. She made a detour around two or three blocks in order to avoid retracing her steps down Main Street and slipped into the door of this establishment as unostentatiously as she could.

  32. Meanwhile, Doris had been unostentatiously taking stock of her brother's messmates.

  33. Living unostentatiously in a small house on the outskirts of Edinburgh, he posed as a retired merchant under the assumed name of Andrew McJeames.

  34. My father's charities alone, as you are aware, unostentatiously as they were conducted, would have tended to give that impression.

  35. He realised the shortcomings of the prevailing types of airships some eleven years ago, and unostentatiously and painstakingly set out to eliminate them by the perfection of a new type of craft.

  36. It is this manifestation of what may be described as acquiescence in any development that enabled the British flying corps, although numerically inferior, to gain its mastery of the air so unostentatiously and yet so completely.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unostentatiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    humbly; meekly; modestly; quietly