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Example sentences for "intentness"

Lexicographically close words:
intentionally; intentione; intentioned; intentions; intently; intents; inter; interact; interacting; interaction
  1. A sudden flash of arrested eye, a certain silent intentness of gaze, an interest in a subject which would seem altogether out of proportion to its importance, a look of perpetual expectancy were all that betrayed his search.

  2. He is perfectly respectful; but the intentness and directness of his silent appeal is far worse than any impudence.

  3. Nancy asked faintly, shrinking a little beneath the intentness of his look.

  4. Nancy blushed under the intentness of his gaze, understanding, thanks to Caroline's report of his conversation with Betty, something of what was in his mind about her.

  5. He turned sharply to implore her help, when again he was struck cold by her look of distance, her expression of intentness upon some far object.

  6. He announced this quietly, briefly, forcing out his words, and gazing with dull intentness at the priest.

  7. She looked with awful intentness at Katerina Ivanovna.

  8. The boys were excited and they, too, wanted to say something, but they restrained themselves, looking with intentness and emotion at the speaker.

  9. Across the table stood a designer and two cutters, and they were watching Emma with an intentness as flattering as it was sincere.

  10. Emma McChesney Buck had been gazing at Mrs. Orton-Wells with an intentness as flattering as it was unfeigned.

  11. He gave her no answer, except by the eye of grave intentness that fixed hers till she could meet it no longer and her own fell.

  12. Then, deliberately, Simon Cameron walked to the doorway and sat down there, his huge furry tail curled around round him, staring with idiotic intentness at the player.

  13. They will hardly begin with their best act," I remarked, surprised by Phillida's convulsive start and rapt intentness upon the stretch of ice that formed the exhibition floor.

  14. In my intentness upon the woman opposite me the tremor passed unheeded.

  15. Then he turned and went within; the soldier marched back and forth, as he was destined to do for some time yet, and listened with all the keen intentness of which he was capable.

  16. He was gazing in fixed intentness at the map drawn in the dust on the smooth, polished top of the cedar chest.

  17. Mr. Gryce asked, seemingly of Mrs. Daniels, though his gaze rested with curious intentness on the girl's head which was covered with a little cap.

  18. For an instant Harry turned and peered toward them with a look in his intentness that struck Flora as something new in him, and made her wonder if he could be jealous.

  19. For a moment they looked at each other, her eyes wide with fright, his narrowed to a glare under the terrible intentness of his brows.

  20. He looked hard at her hand, and something violent in his intentness made her clutch the side of the chair.

  21. Suddenly he looked at me, standing wistful at his side.

  22. The woods were all aflame with color, with wine and amber and gold, and the hills wore the misty mantle of shadowy blue so dear to my youthful memory.

  23. Egad," said Nick, "there is my divinity, and I need not look a step farther.

  24. The Christian is staring with a frantic intentness outwards.

  25. The Buddhist is looking with peculiar intentness inwards.

  26. She was gazing down, with an intentness he knew in her; one hand rested on the parapet.

  27. For one instant Maurice Guest had looked at the girl before him with unconcern, but the next it was with an intentness that soon became intensity, and feverishly grew, until he could not tear his eyes away.

  28. Meanwhile, the shadows deepened, and his subconsciousness never ceased to listen, with an intentness which no whirligigs of thought could distract, for the sound of her step in the passage.

  29. The night life of the town began to bestir itself, and little Rosy, from her conspicuous place, beamed with a bright intentness upon its motley spectacle, careless of where her smiles might fall.

  30. She was turning the leaves of one of the comic weeklies, and a slight frown of intentness upon her face indicated either a limited sense of humor or some unfamiliarity with the subjects under review.

  31. The importance of the answer could be judged by the intentness of his expression while he waited.

  32. He felt the intentness of her steadfast gaze, and paused.

  33. On the morning after John Leaver's departure, Ellen, standing at a window, found herself watching with more than ordinary intentness the face of Amy as she came up the walk to the house.

  34. He looked straight back at her, a peculiar intentness growing in his deep-set eyes.

  35. She watched Walter going back and forth to Endbury with a jealousy the absurdity of which she herself realized, and she listened with a painful intentness to the boy's talk during his occasional idle sojourns on their veranda steps.

  36. A generation is a short--" His face answered more and more the eager intentness of her own.

  37. There was desperate intentness in his question.

  38. That was all, but Janet saw the desperate intentness with which they were focused upon her.

  39. Curt was driving with a desperate intentness as the going became more difficult.

  40. And now the still, pale face of Irene stood out distinctly; and her deep, weird, yearning eyes looked into his with a fixed intentness that stirred his heart to its profoundest depths.

  41. There were those who sought to draw her out, who watched her face and words with keen intentness when certain themes were discussed.

  42. Her attitude, however, indicated intentness of thought, though not disturbing thought.

  43. He looked to be about 40 with a strong, hard face and eyes set so far back that they had a peculiar penetrating intentness and gave you the idea that Sladek was trying to ferret out your innermost secrets.

  44. The question was directed to Ford and Tim caught the intentness with which Crazy John spoke.

  45. He gave her no answer, except by the eye of grave intentness that fixed hers till she could meet it no longer, and her own fell.

  46. She followed every word her brother said with an intentness which boded well for the result of his efforts.

  47. She looked straight into her brother's face with an intentness which made him lower his eyes.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intentness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abandon; absorption; application; ardor; assiduity; attention; awareness; care; commitment; concentration; consciousness; consideration; contemplation; dedication; devotion; diligence; ear; earnest; earnestness; engagement; faith; fervor; fidelity; fire; heat; heed; immersion; intensity; intentness; involvement; loyalty; meditation; monomania; note; notice; observance; observation; obsession; passion; preoccupation; regard; remark; resolution; respect; seriousness; sincerity; spirit; study; submersion; thought; vehemence; warmth; zeal