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Example sentences for "distractingly"

Lexicographically close words:
distorts; distract; distracted; distractedly; distracting; distraction; distractions; distracts; distrain; distrained
  1. As she spoke she looked distractingly pretty and tantalizing.

  2. Roy was distractingly slow about beginning the tale any child could have guessed he was eager to tell.

  3. Look where he would, talk to whom he would, he was persistently, distractingly aware of her; and she could not elude him the whole evening long.

  4. Here she picked up an open knife, a piece of pine from the window sill, drew her lips into a distractingly tempting pucker and began to whistle and whittle in imitation of one of the village's wise-acres at the store.

  5. Gray drove him to the station; Cecile, in distractingly pretty negligee waved him audacious adieu from her window.

  6. And another thing worried the pretty spinster--the comings, goings, and occult doings of her nephew with the most distractingly lovely and utterly impossible girl that fate ever designed to harass the soul of any young man's aunt.

  7. Petite, distractingly pretty, Hamil recognised immediately her attraction--experienced it, amused himself by yielding to it as he exchanged conventionally preliminary observations with her across the table.

  8. He went back to the veranda where Strelsa sat behind the tea-table in her frail pink gown looking distractingly pretty and demure.

  9. She was like a kitten, and had the same distractingly pretty looks, that meant nothing, for everybody that came near her.

  10. But one gets only a confused notion of these details when they surround a distractingly pretty girl of seventeen, standing on little pattens and rounding her dimpled arm to lift a pound of butter out of the scale.

  11. She was at this time distractingly lovely.

  12. It was a very orderly throng, for it was composed of the respectable element of the city, and if they had laid dignity aside for the moment, they were not distractingly noisy.

  13. Altogether she is distractingly pretty, and, what goes for more nowadays, very peculiar in style, and out of the common.

  14. Her fair hair is being blown like a silver cloud hither and thither and renders her distractingly pretty.

  15. Christian America, which ought to set the example of comity, is distractingly divided.

  16. Almost everywhere they are distractingly crooked, and in many places they are plentifully bestrewn with boulders of varying sizes.

  17. Jones's enraptured eyes lingered on the slim shape in mail; he hated to do it, but he brought a Navajo blanket and draped in it the most distractingly pretty figure his rather nearsighted eyes had ever encountered.

  18. She also had the advantage of being distractingly pretty.

  19. You see, if I didn't answer promptly he might think the candy had gone astray," explained the girl stepping to the mirror and arranging a curl that rippled distractingly above her forehead.

  20. The hair still curled distractingly behind the pretty ears, and fluffed into burnished bronze where the wind had loosened it.

  21. Do you think we five men can bring up a distractingly pretty eighteen-year-old girl with curly cheeks and pink hair?

  22. The hunters clustered around with exclamations of admiration; Rosalie, distractingly pretty in her white wool kilts and cap, knelt down and touched the fierce, long-nosed head and stroked the furry jowl.

  23. A distractingly pretty maid laid aside her sewing and rose from her chair to set him right; he bestowed upon her his most courtly thanks.

  24. Rosalie reappeared at that moment in her distractingly pretty pongee motor-coat and hat.

  25. She wore a shell-pink frock and a most distractingly pretty hat; and he hurried his dressing as much as he could without awaking Garret's suspicions.

  26. Forgive me, but you started by being morbid, quoting at me in fact, and you look so distractingly lovely when you are shocked.

  27. Obviously she was trying to keep her voice within the tonal range of his own, but in spite of the effort it trilled distractingly up and down the scale in a fashion that left Oliver smitten with a sudden and unfamiliar weakness of the knees.

  28. Fairly radiating a charming aura of malice she sat back, nursing one knee, distractingly pretty and defiant, saying: "I will call you a god if I like!

  29. And you are distractingly pretty to-night!

  30. She was so distractingly pretty, so confidently negligent of convention--or perhaps disdainful of it--that he already was regretting that he had not met her at the beginning of the voyage instead of at the end.

  31. That brought her abruptly to her feet, to show him a face of glowing loveliness and eyes distractingly dimmed and softened.

  32. Now he's walking slowly round the corner, never taking his eyes from you," the girl reported, shoulder to his shoulder and head distractingly near his head.

  33. She was distractingly pretty, with a beauty that is short-lived with the people of her race.

  34. Polly was all in sailor blue, with a distractingly natty little double-breasted coat and great white rolling collar.

  35. She put on a broad-brimmed straw hat, a distractingly pretty combination of filmy cool stuffs, and led the way to the long, low structure that I had noticed the evening before.

  36. And as I sat down I became aware of a girl at the next table--a girl all in white--the most ravishingly and distractingly pretty girl that I had ever seen.

  37. The gate-keeper, a distractingly pretty red-haired girl, regarded Langdon with dubious hazel eyes.

  38. She bent her distractingly pretty head in acquiescence.


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