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    Use "dumbly" in a sentence

    dumbly example sentences

    dumbly


    1. She handed the paper back to him and dumbly walked toward the boat


    2. just looked at him dumbly


    3. Jamil stares dumbly at his fist, then his eyes meet John’s which are filled with fire and fury


    4. I listened dumbly to the sound of receding footsteps and the soft snick of a door closing and being locked


    5. He continued to stand there dumbly, his mouth flapping open and shut like a goldfish trying to remember what it had eaten for breakfast


    6. He continued to stand there dumbly, his


    7. Ken McCoist and Jock Cascarino, late of Barnstaple parish, formerly and briefly infamous for being run out of Glasgow city's nether regions by the Licensee, gaze out dumbly at a world fundamentally changed, and like dinosaurs grazing in the shadow of the comet, like the Romanov family in a cold country house parlour, they have no understanding of the revolution


    8. could only nod dumbly, and kept glancing behind the wine


    9. He frowned and shook his head dumbly


    10. nodded dumbly, his mouth still ajar and his eyes wide

    11. Felicity’s past whereabouts, I was only able to nod dumbly in the negative


    12. To save me, I realized slowly, dumbly in my drugged mind


    13. I had hesitated stupidly and alone when I might have murdered myself, I stood there dumbly, my will subordinated to a stranger


    14. Unable to wrap her mind around what she was seeing, she looked around dumbly


    15. Jai nodded dumbly in time to the haunting drums


    16. I nodded dumbly, unwilling to open my mouth in case I spewed on him


    17. He could hardly talk, just nodding dumbly as his eyes started to close of their own accord


    18. She nodded dumbly as he strode off toward the private office, smacking his fist


    19. He nodded dumbly and holding each other they sank to the deep moss of the


    20. “You need a ride,” she said and both stared dumbly up at her

    21. In the court which opened on the outer world, the survivors had gathered, weary, tattered, wounded and blood-stained, and stood gaping dumbly at the great unstable pillar that towered momentarily nearer the blue vault of the sky


    22. Dumbly he awaited the stroke of the blade that now gleamed in the apparition's hand as it reared above him like Death triumphant over mankind


    23. Valeria sat dumbly, watching the woman in whose slim hands, the pirate realized, her destiny now rested


    24. Eleven men and women of Tecuhltli knelt dumbly in a semicircle, watching the scene with hot, lustful eyes


    25. Hatch just dumbly nodded in agreement, and Siri could see how the years of responsibility had taken their toll on this once carefree, fun-loving giant of a man who now looked old and very vulnerable


    26. Schnottblower looked at him a bit dumbly


    27. This land troll, Schmoozeglutton now thought, was a wily player, a sly opponent, a cheat! And there Schmoozeglutton had stood, dumbly, while he had done it! The land troll had won the challenge before Schmoozeglutton had even known what was happening!


    28. He stared at it dumbly


    29. He nodded dumbly, unsure what it was that he was agreeing to be ready


    30. Samual looked at the man dumbly not comprehending

    31. ” She stared at him dumbly before getting out of the car


    32. Ceri nodded dumbly her heart aching, she wanted to reach out and hug the


    33. and all he could do was stand dumbly rooted to


    34. Lucifer stared at her dumbly, his eyes continuing to shed tears


    35. Unhooking their flashlights from their belts, they peered dumbly up at the innocuous ceiling tiles above them, speculating about how their ‘man’–possibly still hiding in the elevator shaft–had brought the car to a standstill


    36. Mitch stared dumbly at the towel in Greg’s hand, then at the floor where it had lain


    37. “My hair?” She asked, dumbly as though she knew what had to come next


    38. He only looked dumbly around himself at the crowd


    39. Elowen could only nod dumbly


    40. Her face was serene, but her eyes were laughing at me and she nodded indicating my lap with her eyes and dumbly I looked down

    41. He wheeled around to see one of the brutes of his own creation standing there looking dumbly at him


    42. Zeke looked dumbly at him and asked, “What’s bad about it?” He seemed to be at a complete loss as to why something enjoyable sounding to him could be bad


    43. Dumbly the men looked up seeming to take in the serious turbulent war clouds overhead for the first time


    44. Her eyes widened as she dumbly watched his head dip towards her


    45. But when she looked at him, dumbly, half-guessing, half-understanding, apologizing perhaps, anyhow saying as he had said, "It's none of my fault," straight and beautiful in body, her face like a shell within its cap, then he knew that cloisters and classics are no use whatever


    46. Her father and his friends sat near cross-legged and dumbly smoking, they had moccasins to their feet and large thick blankets


    47. Amy found Grace a well-mannered, merry, little person, and after staring dumbly at one another for a few minutes, they suddenly became very good friends


    48. The unimaginative, hard-working men, great and small, who served this flag afloat and ashore, nursed dumbly a mysterious sense of its greatness


    49. Arriving there, she looked at him heavily, dumbly, and laid her head on his shoulder


    50. Ziggy nodded dumbly, seemingly overwhelmed by her torrent of chatter

















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    Synonyms for "dumbly"

    dumbly densely obtusely

    "dumbly" definitions

    in a stupid manner


    in an inarticulate manner