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Example sentences for "unhurried"

Lexicographically close words:
unhulled; unhuman; unhumbled; unhumorous; unhung; unhurriedly; unhurrying; unhurt; unhusked; unhygienic
  1. Miss Sarah knew what to do; and she worked with unhurried thoroughness.

  2. Kelley straightened and cast an unhurried glance around him.

  3. It would be absurd to claim that his nerves were perfectly calm and his heart entirely unhurried as he crept across the mesa and dropped into the wooded caƱon just above the pasture fence.

  4. One head only bobbed far out as a single swimmer shaped his course in unhurried strokes toward the bar.

  5. They threaded their unhurried way on cushioned hoofs through a traffic of purring roadsters and limousines.

  6. He'd regained most of his aplomb during the unhurried trip across the parklands.

  7. He took an unhurried look around the circle, said quietly, "Accept my profound apologies for doubting you.

  8. His voice was singularly unhurried and gentle.

  9. It was the same unhurried voice which had spoken to Vic on the day of the rescue and it irritated him in the same manner now.

  10. If all our exasperations and embarrassments were followed, and all our decisions and utterances preceded, by unhurried prayer, what power would come forth from us, too.

  11. First--we need time for prayer, unhurried time, daily time, time enough to forget about how much time it is.

  12. The tighter the tension, the more time must there be for unhurried prayer.

  13. Once every two months the supply ship came around, and sometimes, if the weather was fine, some unhurried coaster would stand in and toss them a bundle of newspapers.

  14. Jo was no better pleased that Leigh's face was like a fair picture under her white hat, and she felt her own cheeks flushing as she saw how cool and poised and unhurried her little neighbor appeared.

  15. Muffled sounds of a methodical but unhurried preparation for bed drifted faintly down, one last ripple of song, and then it was silent there.

  16. He begins in a tone of calm, unhurried narration, with only a hint of fear in his voice, but, at the death of Sir Robert, grows breathless with horror and excitement.

  17. This breathless sentence gives some conception of the delirious imagery of Maturin's romance, but the book is worthy of a more respectful, unhurried survey.

  18. The vast design was being worked out, unerringly, unceasingly, unhurried and undelayed, through the sin of one, the virtue of another.

  19. No flurried quickening marked his precise, unhurried sentences; they remained just as leisurely as ever.

  20. I ask my younger Brother, then, to keep sacred, with all his heart and will, an unhurried time alone with the Lord, night and morning at the least.

  21. He took his conge with unhurried amiability; had already turned away when she said: "Please .

  22. His unhurried manipulation, for a few moments, seemed to produce no result.

  23. His entrance was unhurried and his manner quietly confident; he put aside his well-worn overcoat and took his seat at the counsel table.

  24. General Herbert had not been idle while the unhurried preparations for John North's execution were going forward; whatever his secret feeling was, neither his words nor his manner conceded defeat.

  25. The constant uncertainty was fascinating; only in such unhurried rambles does the genius loci reveal itself.

  26. A shape in uniform loomed at the cabin door for an instant and a calm, unhurried voice summoned them.

  27. For a long while he sat there absently caressing his trim, white moustache, studying their papers with unhurried and minute thoroughness.

  28. Flavia was acutely conscious of his steady gaze upon her bent head, and the unhurried certainty with which he was moving toward his chosen goal.

  29. The man measured his young antagonist with unhurried scrutiny, yawned, and ostentatiously settled himself in a position of greater comfort.

  30. Unhurried trailing will repay you by showing you what the world of the wild contains.

  31. A camping trip will afford better and more unhurried opportunities for photographing flowers than a one day's trail, unless you carry a box or basket with you for securing specimens that you can take back and photograph at leisure.

  32. All through the darkness Dodd could hear the unhurried clicking of the key.

  33. The voice of MacGregor was cool and unhurried as Thurston listened.

  34. Rolf steadied his horse, then was silent for awhile as he wiped his blade with unhurried carefulness.

  35. For almost an hour Richard Glover read in his clear, unhurried voice, and Marcreta listened, her wide eyes fastened upon his face.

  36. The court reporter found it easy to take down his unhurried statements.

  37. The witness did so, with the same unhurried attention to detail.

  38. You are in trouble," she went on in the same unhurried voice.

  39. He threw the earnest questions rapidly across the black night, and the unhurried voice answered him.

  40. She stamped her foot and, from the safe concealment of the window curtain, she watched Desire's unhurried progress down the street with eyes in which the blue grew clouded and opaque.

  41. Trees sought to touch her with their fingers; she slipped by them, unhurried by their effort.

  42. Like the unhurried crash of an orchestra the world shouted.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unhurried" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    ambling; cautious; circumspect; crawling; creeping; deliberate; dilatory; easy; faltering; flagging; gentle; gradual; halting; idle; inactive; indolent; laggard; languid; languorous; lazy; leisurely; limping; lumbering; measured; moderate; poking; poky; relaxed; reluctant; shuffling; slack; slothful; slow; sluggish; staggering; strolling; tentative; toddling; tottering; trudging; unhurried