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Example sentences for "incredulous"

Lexicographically close words:
incredibile; incredibility; incredible; incredibly; incredulity; incredulously; incredulus; incremation; increment; incremental
  1. In a few moments his efforts were successful, and the incredulous Robert beheld his uncle invert his precious burden and send a clinking, intrinsic shower of coin to the floor.

  2. Betty, her eyes shining as she tip-toed from the room, closed the door softly behind her and faced her awed and incredulous chums.

  3. Now and then they put their heads together to hear a tale which Dickson was telling, and once burst into a roar of incredulous laughter which made the landlady command them to keep silence.

  4. We beseech you that you do not send us, Columbus-like, from court to court offering the development of a new world to incredulous ears.

  5. He has made matters easier for future colored cadets; and twenty years hence, if not sooner, the young white gentlemen of West Point will read of the fastidiousness of their predecessors with incredulous wonder.

  6. Elizabeth looked at her sister with incredulous solicitude, but said nothing.

  7. Though suspicion was very far from Miss Bennet's general habits, she was absolutely incredulous here.

  8. The dusky choking red that had surged up horribly over his face and forehead receded sharply, and left only his eyes burning black in the white incredulous horror of his face.

  9. Unable to proceed he waited till the murmur of incredulous horror that had risen to a growl should die away.

  10. This makes that equality of power in farce, tragedy, narrative, and love-songs; a merit so incessant that each reader is incredulous of the perception of other readers.

  11. The reader would throw aside such a tale in incredulous disgust, unless it were told with the strongest air of veracity, with a sobriety even in its horrors, with the greatest precision and multiplicity in its details.

  12. He recalled the incredulous smiles, the knowing insinuations, that would have greeted the exact recounting of the past night at Doctor Allhop's drugstore.

  13. Anthony read the letter with growing incredulous wonder and joy.

  14. Anthony stood gazing in incredulous surprise at the polished, brown wallet in his hand.

  15. His jaw dropped, and his glabrous eyes bulged in incredulous dismay.

  16. The knowledge that she had considered the possibility of seeing him filled Anthony with incredulous joy.

  17. Her manner to Alex grew gentle and compassionate, and Alex noticed it with a relieved, uncomprehending gratitude that held something abject in its surprised, almost incredulous acceptance of any kindness.

  18. Anne, with an incredulous spite in her voice.

  19. Weedie's own henchman won't go back on her," he exclaimed, in an incredulous pleasure.

  20. What she had indeed believed was that Jeff would greet the necklace with an incredulous joy and flaunt it in the face of Esther who had stolen it, while he gave it back to Madame Beattie, who had preyed on him.

  21. But you've come back here," she said, incredulous that things as they actually were could supplement the foolish tale Madame Beattie might have stolen out of a silly book.

  22. The incredulous Baronet tapped her cheek with his finger, as he chuckled again roguishly, and with a smile and a shake of his head, their little talk ended.

  23. She "begged pardon" hastily, and with repetition, staring the while with incredulous eyes.

  24. I sat petrified, unable to move or to speak, unable to do anything but stare, and stare, and stare, and listen with incredulous ears to a string of passionate protestations.

  25. And, unheeding the amazed and incredulous looks of his listeners, the little Doctor folded both his short arms across his chest, and hugged himself in the exquisite delight of his own strange theories.

  26. The little doctor, after an incredulous stare, began chattering with wrath.

  27. Suddenly the hot humiliation of it overwhelmed her, and she covered her face with her hands, standing, almost swaying, as wave on wave of incredulous shame seemed to sweep her from knee to brow.

  28. Tristan queried with an incredulous glance at the speaker.

  29. Then her eyes swept Tristan with a look of such incredulous misery that it froze the words that were about to tumble from his lips.

  30. The idea of my being a rival had probably never entered his head; and if it had, would have done so only to raise a smile of incredulous pity.

  31. I repeated my story, which once more he received with an incredulous stare.

  32. The chorus of incredulous laughter incensed the old man.

  33. His eyes roved over the supply of food and the full water-calabashes, though he concealed the incredulous surprise he felt.

  34. He still stared incredulous for a moment, and then the reality of what she said seemed to sink into his soul.

  35. Bobby," Eleanor Van Antwerp stared at her husband in incredulous amazement.

  36. It was Shane's incredulous shout that awakened her.

  37. Laughing at the incredulous look on Ellen's face he limped out to the shed where Kayak Bill was doing up samples of ore to take aboard the Hoonah lying just off the bluff.

  38. Jean gazed with incredulous eyes into the face on the sand.

  39. She had looked at the stranger with awe; she regarded him now with incredulous amazement.

  40. He remembered the mocking boys, the scornful, incredulous people; he recalled the gradual taking away of William's business by the new mason whom Millerstown imported and encouraged.

  41. I only saw in your incredulous smile that I had succeeded in masking my poverty even from you, and in making you suppose that my economy was avarice.

  42. Poor De Vlierbeck writhed on his chair as Denecker poured forth his incredulous jokes.

  43. Gustave looked doubtingly at De Vlierbeck, with so incredulous a smile that the poor gentleman blushed, and trembled like an aspen.

  44. Credulous and incredulous people surrounded the stranger; they pressed upon him, overwhelming him with questions, stretching over one another to thrust their note-books into his hands.

  45. It amused her to see the stranger’s half-incredulous astonishment.

  46. The Seer, in turn, drew back in incredulous amazement.

  47. An opera-singer insensible to the persuasiveness of diamonds and the eloquence of bank-notes—all Paris shugged its shoulders in incredulous astonishment.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incredulous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    agnostic; cautious; disbelieving; doubtful; dubious; faithless; guarded; heretical; incredulous; irreligious; leery; skeptical; suspecting; suspicious; unbelieving; unconvinced; wary