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Example sentences for "uncommonly"

Lexicographically close words:
uncomfortable; uncomfortably; uncomforted; uncommitted; uncommon; uncommunicative; uncompensated; uncomplaining; uncomplainingly; uncompleted
  1. As against bad air, I said, you must set good food; the Lancashire operative in decent times lives uncommonly well, as he deserves to do.

  2. The abstract and intellectual temperament is sometimes apt to be dogged and stubborn; on the other hand, it is often uncommonly elastic.

  3. And e'en should a second subside, A lover should never despair; The world is uncommonly wide, And the women uncommonly fair.

  4. She was rather uncommonly tall, and had a striking and expressive face, dark hair, dark eyes, which shone with an inward light as soon as she began to speak, and by and by a color came into her cheeks and made her look almost young.

  5. If you think you’ll be able to draw out your knife suddenly and give me a poke under the ribs, you’re uncommonly mistaken.

  6. She is uncommonly fond of blue ruin--particularly when she drinks at another person’s expense; and as she drank this afternoon at mine, she did not spare it.

  7. You're an uncommonly good, useful woman, Mrs Berens," said the doctor bluntly.

  8. The afternoon had been exceedingly pleasant after we had left the vale of Arrochar; the sky was often threatening, but the rain blew off, and the evening was uncommonly fine.

  9. We noticed that they had uncommonly fine teeth, and that they and the boatman were very handsome people.

  10. The spot of ground where we sate was even beautiful, the grass being uncommonly verdant, and of a remarkably soft and silky texture.

  11. My limbs were a little stiff, but the morning being uncommonly fine I did not fear to aim at the accomplishment of a plan we had laid of returning to Callander by a considerable circuit.

  12. It was uncommonly difficult to do it at such a moment!

  13. It was uncommonly pretty; where all the houses were picturesque, and she spoke of it with respect as the dwelling of a rich magistrate who was clearly the great man of the place.

  14. The dinner was uncommonly good, as the first dinner out is apt to be; and it went gayly on from soup to fruit, which was of the American abundance and variety, and as yet not of the veteran freshness imparted by the ice-closet.

  15. The sunsets were uncommonly characteristic that May in Union Square.

  16. His pessimism was uncommonly well grounded, and if it did not go very deep, it might well have reached the bottom of his nature.

  17. Why, you're looking uncommonly well, both of you.

  18. Given enough to support life without undue stinting, with a certainty of rescue at the end, and, I think, a fortnight as castaway in these waveless seas would be an uncommonly interesting experience.

  19. Well, I'm uncommonly glad I was out of that affair yesterday, Stanninghame.

  20. The following translation of the verses written with a knife, has been for this reason uncommonly commended, though they have no merit except being done quick.

  21. I've an uncommonly nice old place up in New Hampshire--in the mountains.

  22. Well, naturally Amy doesn't want to lose him, especially as she's really awfully fond of him and he is uncommonly attractive, you know.

  23. A sleeping girl is also uncommonly charming, the coloring very glowing; many cracks in the painting, both in the background and the drapery, show the uncertainty of the artist in the mechanical processes of the art.

  24. In regard to the admirable, spirited invention, which betrays a great master, as well as the finished execution, they rank uncommonly high.

  25. When animated by conversation, his eye is uncommonly brilliant, and his whole countenance is full of intelligence.

  26. His unconquerable dullness was improved into absolute stupidity by the help he received from an uncommonly clever boy, called John Ross, who did him his sums.

  27. Mounted upon his mettlesome charger, which, though uncommonly powerful, was somewhat fatigued because of the many miles put behind him that day, the young knight was riding slowly along some two hundred yards in advance of Belwiggar.

  28. Tyrrell's voice must have been uncommonly resonant, for its deep tones came faintly to the ears of the observer at the window.

  29. Indeed, Sir Richard noted that its furnishings were all patterned after an exquisite fashion, and arranged, withal, in an uncommonly tasteful and pleasing manner.

  30. Once, Sir Richard was proud to remember, when the old Duke happened to have been in an uncommonly amiable mood, he had assured him that he was the most apt of all his pupils.

  31. The workmanship has an uncommonly rude and ancient appearance, and warrants our believing that it may have belonged to one of the Earls of Angus, who carried the heart and quatre-foils[76] in their arms.

  32. It is frequently applied to sprains and bruises, and used to dissipate swellings; but its blow is reckoned uncommonly severe.

  33. Nevertheless, as there are to be found, in these compositions, some uncommonly wild and masculine expressions, the editor has been induced to throw a few passages together, into the sort of ballad to which this disquisition is prefixed.

  34. The two then struck up a most energetic conversation, each being uncommonly taken with the other.

  35. We can safely say, we never knew a rich man who was not uncommonly well able to take care of his cash.

  36. It seems to be uncommonly well quartered--quite noble.

  37. He was uncommonly kind to himself, and hated his heir with an intensity of hatred which was at once the best chance for longevity and for sustaining the oft-disappointed ambitious hopes of the fair.

  38. Further away were the seats of the Nepalese contingent, at the head of whom sat the Nepali resident, a fierce-looking old man in a rather shabby and uncommonly short jacket of plum-coloured brocade lined with fur.

  39. It is uncommonly gratifying to me, that, consequently, as I write in July, the history follows in a half-year from my description.

  40. Through the window he saw an uncommonly beautiful youth standing and playing on a flute.

  41. My correspondent will have me depict Clotilda as uncommonly beautiful.

  42. He peeled off more and more of the hull of his little maid of honor: she was not only uncommonly beautiful, but equally--stupid.

  43. If they take during their hunting parties any game that is reckoned by them uncommonly delicious, it is immediately presented to the oldest of their relations.

  44. In dark nights when there is much lightning, without rain, they seem as if they wished either to imitate or assist the flashes; for during the intervals, they are uncommonly agile, and endeavour to throw out every ray they can collect.

  45. To these are added an inexhaustible fund of riches, in a number of lead mines which lie at a little distance from the Ouisconsin towards the south, and appear to be uncommonly full of ore.

  46. Mr. Pottle did not get a good look at his face, but he ran uncommonly like Mealy-mealy.

  47. Yes, there's a man and woman sitting behind us who seem to be saying something uncommonly interesting.

  48. He had in fact an uncommonly pasty complexion.

  49. The green of the foliage--enriched by an uncommonly humid air and burnished by the sun--is in perfection, while the flowers bloom in such abundance that the whole realm is one glowing pageant.

  50. The devious little streets there visible, and the carved and timber-crossed buildings, often of great age, are uncommonly rich in the expressiveness of imaginative character.


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