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Example sentences for "warily"

Lexicographically close words:
warfare; warhead; warheads; warie; wariest; wariness; warious; wark; warke; warld
  1. Then the silvered king had only three nymphs, an archer, and a warden left, and the golden only three nymphs and the right knight, which made them fight more slowly and warily than before.

  2. She hesitated with her eyes fixed warily on Lois; then she went on: "What makes you treat Francis so queer lately?

  3. Amanda huddled up in her chair, looked warily at the strange shadows in this unfamiliar room, and wished she were at home.

  4. From all her traditions, this office door should have displayed a grinning man or woman trap, which she must warily shun.

  5. Warily they stepped into the place, sharply and warily they looked about them in the street, slowly and with circumspection they opened door after door, afraid of what might be lurking behind to pounce upon them at unawares.

  6. He looked at me warily and proceeded to expound upon the health risks entailed in being exposed to the eclipse.

  7. The Serbs among us move in their chairs, glance warily at each other, as though co-ordinating an as yet unspoken answer.

  8. Warily he circled the house, keeping close to the shrubbery at first and listening as a squirrel might have done, then gradually drawing nearer.

  9. It being now dark, we got upon the raft, and oared ourselves warily and in silence down the stream, until we came to a spit or nose of land that was at this season partly submerged and in winter-time wholly.

  10. I had laid my plans as warily as I might, and now all stood upon my composure, the degree of brazen-facedness I could muster, and the degree to which the Spaniard could be gulled.

  11. Though by his stupidity or obstinacy he deserved no better than to fall into the hands of the Spaniards, I was loth to lose any man of my charge; accordingly, we rode warily some short distance after him.

  12. The wolves surrounded the shack at night, uttering their dreary cries, but kept warily out of gun-shot.

  13. A shy rabbit, hopping around in search of a meal from some tender cotton-wood bark, started back at the sight of the curious bundle lying in the snow; while some distance off a black fox sniffed the air and turned warily away.

  14. Afterwards, while you were trying hard to open, undetected, the sealed history of my early life, I was warily discovering from Margaret all that I desired to know.

  15. To execute it, time and opportunity were mine; and I steadily and warily made use of them, hour by hour, day by day, year by year.

  16. For her own part, Mademoiselle Saget warily held her tongue, leaving the two others to circulate the story of Florent's antecedents.

  17. Each day now some new trick was played upon him, and he was obliged to walk through the market alleys as warily as though he were in a hostile country.

  18. The snake now showed its greasy belly, like dirty stained marble, and the lithe boy, circling behind it, warily essayed to drop the red earthen pot over its head.

  19. Circling and circling, and yet never daring to approach the subject, old Hugh Johnstone warily returned to the suspended baronetcy affair, at last revealing his secret burning anxieties.

  20. The mother rats continue noisily suckling their young, though one warily pokes its sharp nose out over the edge of the felt, sniffing, inquiringly.

  21. Meantime the King his father had landed at Honfleur, assembled his Normans at Rouen, and was working his way warily down through the duchy, feeling for the French on his left, and for the Bretons on his right.

  22. Feeling certain that the slightest perceptible movement upon his part would precipitate the threatened spring, the young knight's fingers, under cover of the table, crept warily toward his sword-hilt.

  23. Cautiously getting to his feet, and dodging warily from tree to tree, he made his way in the direction whence the voice seemed to be coming.

  24. Leaving him to his sorrow, which would have been more poignant had he been enabled to look into that future that Lady Anna was holding before him as a lure, Sir Richard continued warily on his journey along the pinched passageway.

  25. To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.

  26. Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands.

  27. The President continued in the same course, steering east by north, the wind being northwest, expecting the Endymion soon to come up abeam; but the latter warily kept her position by yawing, so as not to close.

  28. Sir James was not acting more warily than Chauncy had acted during June and July, 1813.

  29. Stephens patted and encouraged him, making him understand that there was game afoot, and, warily as if stalking a deer, took him back to where White Antelope lay stiff and stark.

  30. The practical miner looked up warily to see that no fragments were flying overhead, and then stepping from under cover waved his arm.

  31. On he moved again, warily searching each hole and cranny where the great rocks had fallen against each other and formed shelters.

  32. Which had not men more warily understood, they might have performed many acts inconsistent with his intention.

  33. More warily are we to receive the relations of Philes, who in Greek Iambicks delivered the proprieties of Animals, for herein he hath amassed the vulgar accounts recorded by the Ancients, and hath therein especially followed AElian.

  34. Warily he slipped downward until, parting the foliage with a stealthy hand, he made out the figure of a tall muscular warrior standing in the trail, his attitude that of a sentry.

  35. Nearer and nearer he approached, moving warily lest the girl take alarm and climb high into some tree.

  36. Tharn, reasoning that the palace sleeping quarters would be above, stole warily toward the stairway.

  37. Mrs. Mitchell sat on the steps at the rear of the cottage, stemming a bowl of strawberries and warily watching the elusive feints of a white turkey hen picking her way to a nest hidden in a tangle of blackberry vines.

  38. He must walk warily and fearlessly, and while he should never brawl if he can avoid it, he must be ready to hit hard if the need arises.

  39. He eyed me warily for a short time to see if I was likely in this respect to follow in my predecessor's footsteps.

  40. To make matters worse, the Captain, who had been warily prospecting around, now came rushing back, gesticulating energetically.

  41. When Jepson, pale and anxious, sidled warily into the office he found Rimrock sitting thoughtfully in a chair.

  42. You're scared, you coward," went on Rimrock scathingly as McBain looked warily about.

  43. She answered warily that she knew him not, but Christ the true prophet, the Son of God, who was the Light of the World, and enlightened every man coming into the world, Him she knew.

  44. Nay,' said the Stranger, giving the lamb tenderly into my arms, and halting upon his staff; speaking warily and weightily as I never heard a man speak before or since.

  45. At first I could not be sure; for he carried a lamb in his arms and trod warily with it, in the way that shepherds do.

  46. Two or three men rode warily along their crest, keeping sharp lookout to the south, while scattered across the valley a like distance ahead were half a dozen active troopers, the two guides, and Ray.

  47. Warily in front, too, where Ray is skilfully retiring, face to the foe, but keeping them back while Wayne has time to return to the column and move his horses into the sheltering timber and prepare for vigorous defence.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "warily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    gingerly; guilefully; knowingly; salt; slick; smoothly