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Example sentences for "slowly"

Lexicographically close words:
slowe; slowed; slower; slowest; slowing; slowness; slows; sluagh; slubber; slubbing
  1. The lady goes slowly and absently toward the door, where she stops, and then she turns and goes back slowly, and as if forcing herself.

  2. My grandfather told me," said Flint, as he walked slowly down the hill, "that in the old days the cave men did not have stone axes and spears.

  3. Smiles came about the old man's mouth, and he slowly pulled four beautiful chipped axes from his bag.

  4. But when night fell, the other mammoths slowly left him, often turning back to touch him with their trunks and to trumpet.

  5. A fire burned brightly on the floor, while the smoke rose slowly and went out at a hole in the roof.

  6. A fire burned within him and he tore his flesh and hair, while death like a dark shadow hovered nearer and nearer, closing in slowly but surely.

  7. Gilbert Allison slowly raised himself to a sitting posture and, with an elbow resting on either knee, transferred his study from the ceiling pattern to that of the carpet.

  8. She spoke slowly and softly, without much effort, and quite distinctly.

  9. Ravished with the perfume, and hoping for reward of our long toils, we drew slowly near.

  10. She thought the scene was very like a stage, when she came out through the narrow door which the old woman unlocked from a key she carried on a girdle, and slowly descended the stone steps.

  11. Then slowly they followed them again: I think it very strange of you to leave us like that, but of course you are your own mistress.

  12. Slowly the two recrossed the hall, talking together in low gutturals and not apparently of unpleasant things, for a note of laughter sounded.

  13. He was looking at his cigarette as he tapped it on the arm of his chair, and slowly struck a light, then, after the first breath, "But do you not hear his footsteps in your sleep?

  14. The street was empty of all except an old orange vender, shuffling slowly along, with a cartwheel of a tray on her head, piled with yellow fruit shining vividly in the hot sun.

  15. Slowly the arms dropped in a gesture of despair.

  16. He merely said slowly and thoughtfully, "Of course the dancer's story is all you really have to go upon.

  17. After an instant's hesitation, Arlee took off her hat and bathed her face and hands, then moved slowly to the dressing table to glance at her hair.

  18. They lingered in parley in the court, but by the time that he thought that he could not hang on a minute longer and would drop like a peach from the wall, they separated and each moved slowly away.

  19. Slowly Burroughs let fall the hand he had laid upon Billy's arm.

  20. He waved his cigarette at the wall ahead of them, towards which they were slowly walking.

  21. She held her breath for the expected outburst; but Don Roberto only stared at her, his eyes slowly expanding.

  22. Occasionally one of Don Roberto's huge farm waggons, as deep as a tall man's height, was filled with hay, and young Menlo Park jolted slowly to the hills.

  23. The purple face on the languidly revolving body was barely visible; but as it turned slowly to the door, it occupied a definite place among the shadows.

  24. The man, whose gall had been slowly rising for want of drink, hurried them roughly off the car and across the sidewalk into a dark passage.

  25. She went along the hall as slowly as she could, her hands clenched, her mind in travail for a few words of appropriate greeting.

  26. The sluggish tide mounted slowly to her face as she realised that this physical manner must have fallen upon her gradually, and been worn for some time; and its significance.

  27. Magdaléna shook her head again, but slowly this time.

  28. Nobody came, though from without a hum Of instruments and singing slowly rose.

  29. Then putting-to the piebald nags, they climbed Into their vans and slowly stole away Along Blown Hilcote on the Icknield Way.

  30. Our host has turned several pheasants into this forest, but they increase very slowly on account of the wekas.

  31. At this point of the entertainment everybody voted it a great success; although the wind was slowly rising and blowing from a cold point, and our blanket-tent did not afford the perfect warmth and shelter we had fondly credited it with.

  32. This membrane is the only evidence of ectoplasm, and it frequently shows folds and wrinkles, while its contour slowly changes with movements of body.

  33. When moving slowly they look much like nicely-pointed paint brushes, but when the animal is compressed they quickly become fibrillated, and then look like extremely old and worn brushes.

  34. Pseudopodia short and finger-form, emerging from the edge of the mantle-opening and swaying slowly from side to side or quiescent.

  35. The animal moves slowly along with a rolling motion similar to that described by Pènard '90, in the case of Acanthocystis.

  36. Slowly take the paper away from the glass.

  37. Then, pressing the plate against the glass slowly raise the head and stand erect.

  38. Then, holding the tube by the middle with the right hand, peel the paper away slowly from the bottom of the tube and put the paper between the lips for a moment while you take the top paper away.

  39. Picking up a glass goblet with his other hand, he holds it under his right hand from which dry red sand slowly trickles.

  40. The Dervishes--or what was left of them--were riding slowly some little distance out in a confused crowd, their patchwork jibbehs and red turbans swaying with the motion of their camels.

  41. Slowly these faded into slate again, and the night had come.

  42. Belmont and Cochrane crawled down to where the Soudanese soldiers were firing slowly and steadily, resting their rifles upon the boulders in front of them.

  43. He walked slowly away, with his straight-legged military stride.

  44. The fat clergyman puffed slowly up the bank, with many gasping witticisms at his own defects.

  45. Slowly the sun sank towards the west, and their shadows began to trail along the path where their hearts would go.

  46. Another instant, and the camels were on their feet and moving slowly towards the point of alarm.

  47. The strange, wild frieze moved slowly and silently onwards amid a setting of black stone and yellow sand, with the one arch of vivid blue spanning the rugged edges of the ravine.

  48. As he slowly mounted in the air, he looked about him very wroth, his eyes and his trunk being the only portions of his frame at liberty.

  49. Such were my reflections as I slowly descended the steps, occasionally pausing for a moment on one, as I was lost in conjecture, when I was again arrested by a slight slap on the shoulder.

  50. At first he stared at me as if he found it impossible to comprehend the witticism of my remark; but as its point seemed slowly to make its way into his brain, his eyes, in the same proportion, seemed protruding from their sockets.

  51. Slowly and silently, as it had descended, that horrible bed-top rose toward its former place.

  52. As Burwell, choking with eagerness, bent his head slowly to hers, a suggestion of a smile flickered across the woman's face.

  53. As he drew them slowly away again he met the sad, earnest look with which the kneeling woman greeted him, and for a few moments they gazed at one another in complete silence.

  54. In fact, after the lapse of a few minutes, the two gloomy figures slowly pursued their way, still conversing in low tones, toward the place whence the prisoner had come; HE HAD NOT BEEN SEEN!

  55. She slowly unclosed her eyes, and gazed into the mirror, which her husband had arranged for that purpose.

  56. With a supreme effort, the pale figure slowly raised itself on the pillow, its fingers clutching at the counterpane.

  57. The captain, as he moves slowly past, eyes each man from head to foot, and lets nothing pass of which he disapproves.

  58. She then slowly turns round, taking very short steps while turning, and eventually returns, still walking backward.

  59. While the red lights are slowly dimmed, the green lights are slowly turned on.

  60. The magician takes a large table cover, and, standing at the rear of table, proceeds to cover it by throwing cloth over table, so that it reaches the floor in front of the table, then slowly draws it up over the table top.

  61. The noise thus made is the signal for the operator, who immediately draws back the curtains, finds by the weight that something is in the trunk, and then unties it slowly and presents the mysterious traveler to the audience.

  62. Motion is given to the sun by means of an inclined plane up which the arc lamp is carried by means of a winch which is slowly manipulated by the assistant.

  63. Again, at the word of command the skeleton in its turn slowly disappears, and the draped figure of the spectator appears again.

  64. They were able to raise and lower the box with perfect ease, but at a wave of the magician's wand the little chest descended slowly to the floor, lifting off their feet the spectators who were holding the rope, to the astonishment of everyone.

  65. She slowly rises and goes through each desired performance, finally returning to her chair and allowing herself to be dehypnotized.

  66. The moon passes slowly before the sun until the earth is fully illuminated and the sky and landscape assume a normal appearance.

  67. All that now remains to be done is for the lady to open the trap in table and slowly take her place on top of the table, and close the trap.

  68. At the proper moment the back drop is slowly and steadily raised.

  69. Foul monsters of crab-like form crawl slowly about, beneath a huge hull of sun, red and fixed in the sky.

  70. This is equivalent to saying that the sun itself seems always creeping slowly eastward in the heaven.

  71. The result is that this bulged-out portion swings slowly under the pulls of solar and lunar gravitation, in response to the displacements of the sun and moon to the north and to the south of it.

  72. This, however, was soon found not to be the case, for the lunar disc was noticed to creep slowly across them also.

  73. As he neared her, he saw her great hull slowly and almost imperceptibly careen on the starboard side, by which he was approaching her, and, presently, a gang of men in slings were let down over her port side.

  74. Admiral de Langara had the weather-gage at first, and was able to keep it for over two hours; and in that time the Spaniards were slowly but steadily creeping away from their enemies.

  75. When he knew that I was firmly resolved to go, muttering between his teeth, and limping as well as he could, he came on behind me very slowly and at a great distance.

  76. Then I quickened pace, while they still followed slowly at my heels; this augmented my fear, for I thought I might be falling into an ambuscade, which would have cut me off in front as well as rear.

  77. And for each shot the Boches fired the Sammies sent two in return, so that slowly but surely they advanced.

  78. Over his head Bob could see the sky and note that clouds were slowly floating along.

  79. Or would the gray hordes leap out and try to thrust back the soldiers of Uncle Sam who were slowly but surely smashing the Hun lines?

  80. They're not anxious to be seen," came from Jimmy, as he slowly progressed.

  81. The reason he did it slowly was because it seemed less painful that way.

  82. I wonder what happened," mused Bob, and his brain seemed to work as slowly as did his eyes.

  83. And slowly and cautiously they entered the tunnel, Roger and Jimmy in the lead.

  84. Slowly and cautiously, in the semi-darkness, Roger and Jimmy crept forward.

  85. But cold facts stared him in the face as he slowly rose to his feet.

  86. At Greyton," said the boy, slowly and sadly.

  87. And so they rested for a few moments looking in each other's eyes, till Jack's slowly closed, and he uttered a low groan.

  88. For this reason the first words of a monologue must usually be delivered slowly and emphatically, if auditors are to be given a clue to the processes of the thought.

  89. The last line throbs with deep emotion, and we feel how slowly and sadly she would acknowledge the failure of life: "And we missed it, lost it forever.

  90. It reserves its truth until the thought has slowly grown in the mind of the hearer.

  91. They have been in every case slowly recognized; in fact, one of the last, if not most difficult phases of literary education and culture is the definite conception of the difference between the various forms of poetry.

  92. If, however, one will meditate over the whole, take hints here and there and put them together, a distinct picture is slowly formed in the mind.

  93. Hold the arms straight out, then slowly throw them back behind you as far as possible, at the same time taking a full breath, then bring them slowly back to the front, as at first, expelling the breath while doing so.

  94. This may be practiced on a bed or couch to commence with, and should be taken slowly at first, until it can be done half a dozen times without discomfort.

  95. All food should be eaten slowly and a little at a time.

  96. A half pint of hot water should be slowly sipped soon after rising, and no nourishment partaken of for at least half an hour.

  97. Slowly, slowly the cauld moon creeps Wi' a licht unloesome to see; It dwalls on the window whaur my love sleeps, An 'she winna wauken to me.

  98. The princess wept and wept again; the reason for her tears And that her life had little joy within her royal house, Was that her father had forgot for slowly passing years To dower her in marriage with some rich and noble spouse.

  99. Majendie was on the left of Mrs. Kildair, Slade next to him, sweeping the table slowly with his direct, lowering glance, his lips slightly pursed.

  100. She let the check flutter from her fingers to the desk, thoughtfully considering it, divining slowly what it meant.

  101. Only I am to blame," she answered, stopping short, each word coming slowly through the torrents of tears.

  102. A coupe with trunks behind it disengaged itself from the confusion of traffic and, turning, slowly passed him.

  103. Then, rising, she came slowly back, very subdued, still alarmed at the undisturbed friendship in his look.

  104. The broker drew in his upper lip and, coming slowly forward, said: "The presence of these gentlemen is exceedingly distasteful to me.

  105. To gain time, she went slowly back to the kitchen, her head bowed, her thumb between her teeth.

  106. Garraboy turned his back and walked slowly back and forth, evidently in distressed conjecture, occasionally raising his head to shoot a glance at the three, half in rage, half in fear.

  107. She turned very slowly and looked at him steadily a moment.

  108. She made no further search, but remained without moving, her fingers slowly tapping the table, her head inclined, her lips drawn in a little between her teeth, watching in the glass the crowded table reflected from the outer studio.

  109. This light, subdued and somber though it was, slowly fading, verging toward a night of May, disclosed unusual furnishings.

  110. Rigid he sat and pale, with sweat now slowly guttering down his face, his jaws clamped hard and white.

  111. Glancing down, the Master saw far, far below him a slowly rotating vagueness of waters black and burnished, of faintly twinkling lights.

  112. You could see great changes had come upon the man, as he paced slowly up and down the singular room, hands deep in the pockets of his riding-trousers.

  113. Both, with deep memories, were peering at those words, as the light slowly faded in the west over the Palisades.

  114. Their dull minds, slowly reacting, could not grasp the significance of all this.

  115. Slowly he tilted the jar toward the thirsty sands.

  116. Through the west windows the slowly changing hues of gray, of mulberry, and dull rose-pink blurred in the sky, cast softened lights upon those wrinkles, but could not hide them.

  117. British goods, he very wisely calculated, could not be commandeered without recompense The packet was lashed to a camel-goad which was driven into the sand, and Nissr once more got slowly under way.

  118. As Nissr slowly turned, a trap opened in the bottom of her lower gallery, almost directly between the two forward vacuum-floats, and down sped a little landing nacelle or basket at the end of a fine steel cable.

  119. Oddly awry she hung, driven slowly eastward by the wind.

  120. Nissr sagged drunkenly, lost headway and slewed off her course, turning slowly in the thin, cold air.

  121. While the three others stood wondering on the dark wharf, the launch began to draw slowly back into the stream.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    slowly and; slowly said