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Example sentences for "affrightedly"

Lexicographically close words:
affray; affrays; affreux; affright; affrighted; affrighting; affrights; affront; affronted; affronting
  1. The capital building's over yonder," said the Minister, at once urgently and affrightedly and persuasively.

  2. It reported affrightedly that the Med Ship could not be entered, and the grid's control building was dark and empty and sprayed as if to destroy contagion.

  3. Nor were the rafters themselves without fear, but rushed affrightedly about, the women and children shrieking in chorus.

  4. Then, when they glanced affrightedly around, they saw fully a dozen Sioux bucks, all well mounted, bearing down upon them at full speed.

  5. The landlord straightened, gazing affrightedly at his finger tips.

  6. He shouted affrightedly in his blindness, but the mocking voice of Big George answered him and he cowered at the malevolence in the words.

  7. At the sound of his voice she started up, and clasping his arm with her trembling fingers, to arrest his progress, looked affrightedly into his seared and listless countenance.

  8. So they mingled with the throng, herding affrightedly together in the rear of the embassy, and followed in their ranks as best they might.

  9. She got that far when she affrightedly remembered the bedroom upstairs and paused.

  10. A squirrel, that had paused at her quiet feet, darted affrightedly across the cabin floor.

  11. Nanina started up affrightedly from her stool.

  12. And had he failed to summon courage enough to make all safe by removing--This last question was too horrible to be pursued; Gabriel stifled it affrightedly in his own heart as he went on.

  13. As he spoke the last words, a slight noise was audible on the other side of the partition, the door half opened, and Perrine appeared at it, looking affrightedly into the room.

  14. You were near, Therese, sobbing affrightedly and waiting to be carried away to a place of security.

  15. Suddenly, she started, listening affrightedly to Baby Dick's cry in the next room.

  16. Speaking those words in low, quick, pleading tones, and drawing back affrightedly to the door, Sarah disappeared without waiting a moment to be spoken to again.

  17. They fixed affrightedly on the old man, without any expression of recognition.

  18. At this exordium, Sarah tried affrightedly to rise from her chair; but her uncle caught her by the hand, and pressed her back in it.

  19. Hiram stood for awhile, puzzled and ill-at-ease, watching his master draw slowly nearer to the pools; and then his face brightened on the sudden as he shuffled across to where two shepherd lads were talking affrightedly together.

  20. A crackling of twigs came from up the Dene, and turning affrightedly she saw Shameless Wayne striding along the narrow path.

  21. And then they glanced affrightedly toward the moor-wicket, as if they looked for another shout of "Ratcliffe" and another rush of red-heads down the path.

  22. Before she had been long engaged in this way, she was startled by the sound of his voice, affrightedly calling her back.


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