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Example sentences for "cautiously"

Lexicographically close words:
cautioned; cautioner; cautioning; cautions; cautious; cautiousness; cauzee; cava; caval; cavalcade
  1. Sir Giles, gazing suspiciously at Gillian as she emerged from the inner room, followed cautiously by Aveline, who was wrapped in the muffler.

  2. Harry ran on till the rugged nature of the point compelled him to walk, then step cautiously from rock to rock.

  3. The pattering was repeated, and she went cautiously to the window, to make out in the gloom a figure that certainly was not that of Leslie.

  4. Leslie seated himself, took the oars, turned the boat, and backed slowly and cautiously in, holding himself ready to pull out again at the slightest appearance of danger.

  5. He mounted directly, bent down and extended a hand to each in turn, and then taking the lead, went cautiously onward to get out of the deep rift, and find a place that would enable them to reach the higher ground.

  6. After a breathless wait of a moment or two, he stole cautiously out, and, selecting the darkest shadows, slipped from one to another till he was caught by the sound of voices issuing from the yawning entrance of the main building on his right.

  7. People rushed towards one point; horsemen galloped thither, carriages bowled cautiously in their wake.

  8. Before I got quite up, the kitchen-door was cautiously drawn open, and Mrs. Todhetley looked out.

  9. She was standing in that high narrow pathway that is perched up aloft and looks so dangerous, steadying herself by a tree, and bending cautiously forwards to look down.

  10. I did not like the leering look on his false face as he sidled cautiously up towards the sixpence.

  11. He stole cautiously to the stile, making a wide circuit round me to do it, glanced at Van Rheyn, and then made straight off in the right direction as fast as his legs would carry him, the dog barking at his heels.

  12. He said he had gone out cautiously in the night and walked about the churchyard for an hour, thinking over what he could do.

  13. Cautiously as Barbara's visits had been managed, the infirm monarch's eye had maintained its keenness of vision here also.

  14. It seemed advisable to move very cautiously in the matter.

  15. Reetal asked, cautiously massaging the back of her neck.

  16. Quillan emerged cautiously from the fifth portal in the Executive Block a short while later, came to a sudden stop just outside it.

  17. After glancing cautiously about, he started away in the same careful manner.

  18. He had picked his way cautiously toward the Canyon when he halted suddenly, his eyes growing large at what he saw.

  19. Recognizing that he was right, the others obeyed, with the exception of Tad Butler, who crept cautiously forward, feeling his way with the toes of his boots, that he too might not share the fate of his two companions.

  20. She arose, and, looking cautiously round, went to the hearth, which was ornamented with curious old Dutch tiles, with pictures of Scripture subjects.

  21. As the old Doctor was his counsellor in sickness, and almost everybody's confidant in trouble, he had intended to impart cautiously to him some hints of the change of sentiments through which he had been passing.

  22. All cautiously approached, tore away the planks that remained, and leaned over the abyss.

  23. He looked cautiously round without advancing, and contemplated in silence the apartment occupied by the master of the horse.

  24. My second was that the confounded fellow had cautiously removed some essential part of the car's mechanism.

  25. I could but suppose that there was something cold-blooded, calculating, almost reptilian in his character; that he had planned cautiously and far-sightedly what he regarded as the best means for bringing about my ultimate disgrace.

  26. Christy walked very cautiously to the side of the building, for the entrance was at the end nearest to the fort, and found several windows there, from which the sashes seemed to have been removed, if there had ever been any.

  27. No sentinel could be discovered, and getting down upon the sand, the two officers crept cautiously towards the heaps of sand which formed the fort.

  28. An hour's walk brought us to a ravine which we cautiously approached.

  29. The pigeons are always timid, and ever on the alert when being watched, and the observer must approach them cautiously to prevent a commotion.

  30. He was hungry and advanced to the meat, tearing off huge bites and gulping them down till the wire edge of his hunger was appeased, then sidled cautiously round the steer to nose the mating she-wolf.

  31. They circled cautiously for an opening, hind parts tensed and drooping, ears laid flat and lips drawn back to expose the yellow tusks.

  32. Breed moved to within ten feet of the meat and extended one forepaw, feeling cautiously through the carpet of dust, then pushed it two inches ahead.

  33. I felt it cautiously with my foot; it did not yield, so I twisted myself round and touched it with my hand.

  34. The doctor and Walter agreed to follow Nub's advice, and cautiously approached the sleeping brachylophus, as the doctor called the creature.

  35. The doctor agreed to Nub's proposal, and they proceeded more cautiously than before.

  36. After each pull it would rear up on its hind legs and look cautiously over the brush in every direction.

  37. My uncle said he heard that there were some slackers hiding in this swamp," said Ted, cautiously and invitingly.

  38. Cautiously they stole down the log and stepped upon the soft carpet of pine needles.

  39. Here the trail was lost, but the boys still cautiously advanced.

  40. Oo-koo-hoo cautiously went down on one knee and there waited with his gun cocked and in position.

  41. He cautiously went down on one knee and there waited with his gun cocked and in position.

  42. But in a couple of hours one of the half-frozen brutes silently rose up, cautiously stepped among the sleeping men, and lay couched close to a smouldering fire.

  43. Slowly he moved forward, cautiously avoiding the snapping of a twig or the scraping of underbrush.

  44. But as a vast number of horses are sold at this age, and many are started for heavy stakes, it will be imperative now to proceed more cautiously in the description.

  45. When cautiously conducted, the operation was tedious, and the struggles of the horse were not devoid of danger.

  46. And thus, pulling cautiously by day, and tying up to the banks at night, the winding course of the river was slowly followed and Paddi approached.

  47. Very soon he was outside the magazine once more, and having crept cautiously across the cabin, went staggering up the ladder bearing a couple of bags over each shoulder.

  48. But their leader restrained them, and at his orders they returned, and began to walk cautiously towards the foot of the rock.

  49. When such shelters are discovered, a man approaches them cautiously and drives his spear through the shelter into the boar's back.

  50. The bear finding that, as he erroneously supposes, every one has gone away, and being naturally desirous of quitting such uncomfortable quarters will, after a short time, come cautiously out and may thus be easily shot.

  51. The result that I anticipated soon followed, and, imagining that we had given up our project in despair, and being naturally desirous of leaving such uncomfortable quarters, Bruin presently appeared looking cautiously about.

  52. Occasionally it sat up to peer cautiously at the bull, and then sinking down it again glided on.

  53. They proceeded cautiously to where the Spaniards lay.

  54. Cautiously the boy took hold of the white horse's halter and then hastily, as if to protect himself, he seized the rein of the gelding which had also been trusted to his care.

  55. But the cat crept up cautiously towards him; Hauke stood and looked at him, the bird hanging from his hand and the cat stopped with its paw raised.

  56. Almost at the same moment a section of the book-case surrounding the room moved inward, apparently of its own volition, and two men, one of whom was the man Lopes, crept cautiously into the apartment.

  57. The next moment the fugitive Chilian pushed his way cautiously into the path, looking warily to right and left as he did so.

  58. Jim at once left his hiding-place and crept cautiously forward, presently reaching Carbajal's side.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cautiously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    carefully; deliberately; diligently; discreetly; easily; easy; gently; gingerly; haltingly; industriously; judiciously; leisurely; lovingly; moderately; painstakingly; reluctantly; salt; slow; slowly; tenderly; thoroughly