Use "dolefully" in a sentence
dolefully example sentences
dolefully
1. I stared dolefully at the counter top while Vera talked about nothing important
2. Throwing off the red blanket, Hives propped himself up in the corner of the ambulance, glaring at me dolefully
3. “The shaman is nowhere to be found!” another cry reverberated dolefully somewhere within the shadows
4. "Oh, Una, I never thought of that," she said dolefully
5. Trask shook his head dolefully
6. Somewhere a dog began howling dolefully, and a stealthy step padded outside the barred and bolted door
7. ” Her mother answered dolefully
8. At the party, she sang dolefully, but
9. The boy gradually came to a halt upon the staircase and dolefully turned his head to look
10. Zeeshan watched me dolefully as his eyes too sparked with tears
11. 'It was so nice,' said Vicki-, dolefully sniffing
12. Had he not a cousin who had married a German officer? A whilom gay and sprightly cousin, who spent her time, as she dolefully wrote, having her mind weeded of its green growth of little opinions and gravelled and rolled and stamped with the opinions of her male relations-in-law
13. As chance would have it, when he had got to this line there happened to come by a peasant from his own village, a neighbour of his, who had been with a load of wheat to the mill, and he, seeing the man stretched there, came up to him and asked him who he was and what was the matter with him that he complained so dolefully
14. He also felt along the sides of the pit with his hands to see if it were possible to get out of it without help, but he found they were quite smooth and afforded no hold anywhere, at which he was greatly distressed, especially when he heard how pathetically and dolefully Dapple was bemoaning himself, and no wonder he complained, nor was it from ill-temper, for in truth he was not in a very good case
15. Crass looked at the piece of paper dolefully
16. I had scarcely arrived at the total when a seventh was heard, as in the region of air, wailing dolefully
17. The boughs were tossing heavily above their heads; while one solemn old tree groaned dolefully to another, as if telling the sad story of the pair that sat beneath, or constrained to forebode evil to come
18. It purred dolefully but relentlessly on the speaker
19. She assumed her dolefully submissive manner and said to her husband: ‘Listen to me, Count, you have managed matters so that we are getting nothing for the house, and now you wish to throw away all our- all the children’s property! You said yourself that we have a hundred thousand rubles’ worth of things in the house
20. Zephine and Dahlia, whom chance had made beautiful in such a way that they set each off when they were together, and completed each other, never left each other, more from an instinct of coquetry than from friendship, and clinging to each other, they assumed English poses; the first keepsakes had just made their appearance, melancholy was dawning for women, as later on, Byronism dawned for men; and the hair of the tender sex began to droop dolefully
21. " And his meditation turning to a reproach, fell back upon himself; he reflected dolefully on his idleness, his paralysis of soul, which was gaining on him, and of that night which was growing more dense every moment before him, to such a point that he no longer even saw the sun
22. “It’s too cynical, Bogardus,” Telesphore said dolefully
23. So Pseldonimov mused dolefully
24. Then again he began, more dolefully, his 'Ay day, dalalay—ah, ah,' and ceased
25. She assumed her dolefully submissive manner and said to her husband: “Listen to me, Count, you have managed matters so that we are getting nothing for the house, and now you wish to throw away all our—all the children’s property! You said yourself that we have a hundred thousand rubles’ worth of things in the house
