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Example sentences for "woodenly"

Lexicographically close words:
woodde; woodden; woode; wooded; wooden; woodent; woodenware; wooding; woodland; woodlands
  1. She took the bundles woodenly until she came to a plastic can.

  2. Gordon hesitated, and then swung off woodenly to take up his new beat.

  3. Inside, Sheila sat woodenly on the little sofa, pretending to see none of them.

  4. Bad Dollar made no further movement, and Dane crouched woodenly still, only sliding his forefinger inside the guard of the trigger when at last a spray of leaves swished softly a few yards away.

  5. Then, however, he feared only that he had not accurately loaded the cartridge, or that the damp had spoiled the fulminating mixture inside its cap; and his fingers were woodenly steady as they tightened on the gun.

  6. She could copy a drawing in a woodenly accurate kind of way, with stodgy skies made chiefly of Chinese white, and exceedingly woolly trees largely helped out with the same useful composition.

  7. For a full minute the man and the lion stared woodenly into each other's eyes, across a space of hardly more than a dozen paces.

  8. Fordak wiped his nose with the back of one hand and stared woodenly at the crimson stains left there.

  9. The youth, with his chin still on his breast, stood woodenly by while his companion beat ways and means out of sullen things.

  10. They stared woodenly at the sights, and, lowering their eyes, looked from face to face.

  11. Fritz continues to stare woodenly at the roof of the dock-shed.

  12. A Mess waiter's idea of efficiency as a rule is to stand woodenly at attention in an obscure corner of the room.

  13. The Quartermaster-Sergeant unglues his longing gaze from the estaminet and comes woodenly to attention.

  14. A file of them, stolid, woodenly walking--he could not fail to know them from the ape-men of the tribe.

  15. It was another instant before he sensed that his companions were still marching--trudging stiffly, woodenly off through the dark.

  16. Chet saw Harkness stiffen, one upraised hand falling woodenly to his side; a cry of warning was strangled in his throat, and then the glaring eyes passed on to the face of Diane.

  17. His Mexican brother leaning woodenly against the window has a slow dream in his eyes.

  18. The sergeants stared woodenly to the front.


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