fearfully
Example Sentences
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Fearfully sticking to rules may give the appearance of avoiding problems but only ends up hurting the service that the Vatican Curia is called to give the church, he said.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2023
"Fearfully short on laughs" is how he put it.
From The Guardian • Aug. 13, 2010
Fearfully, madly she moves to crazy cross-grained rhythms, falls dead finally across a human pyre built hastily that her body may not touch the sacred soil.
From Time Magazine Archive
Fearfully they asked him, "What will we be able to say about our own roles under Stalin?"
From Time Magazine Archive
Fearfully, she felt her way through the unfamiliar rooms in her nightgown and bare feet.
From "The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
