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Meanings of dolefully in English
Synonyms
Examples for "sorrowfully"
Examples for "sorrowfully"
1
He looked at her gravely for a minute and then said sorrowfully:-
2
The rose-garden was empty; and she came back sorrowfully to say so.
3
Unfortunately and sorrowfully, I remembered being programmed to drive children to Neil's.
4
It stood nodding its head sorrowfully at a good-by in the snow.
5
Hal was silent for a moment; then he said, slowly and sorrowfully:
Usage of dolefully in English
1
Then the King spake dolefully in the Hall of Kings, and said:
2
The four scientists huddled in their Genellan suits and dolefully watched him.
3
The Smith boy looked very sad, as he shook his face dolefully.
4
The words of this singular man and profound thinker, affected me dolefully.
5
The screamers, crying curu-curu, and the ibises, wailing dolefully, came even closer.
6
The Beast, who had been sighing dolefully while she spoke, now replied:
7
Upon being greeted with these words Maurice Pemberton shook his head dolefully.
8
They sat and sipped their lemonades, thoughtfully inspecting their straws, dolefully ruminative.
9
The speaker, a shabby, unshaven man with a beastly face, whined dolefully.
10
Did you see the way he looked at her? she finished dolefully.
11
She grows thinner and thinner, said Joe, dolefully, while he eyed her.
12
My hats are ruined,-andI, too, for that matter! continued Bélisaire, dolefully.
13
And so we lay the second night dolefully in the rain.
14
Presently the owl screeches dolefully once more and the bat wheels low overhead.
15
There I was in the hall, scribbling dolefully about my symptoms.
16
Again the apothecary examined the body, and again he shook his head dolefully.
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United Kingdom
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