gingerly
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Gingerly exiting my car, I walked backward and then put my hands behind my back, following commands.
From Washington Post • May 13, 2022
LIVERPOOL, England — Gingerly, Liverpool’s players clasped each other’s hands and turned toward the Kop, Anfield’s iconic, sweeping grandstand.
From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2020
Gingerly, from behind the skull, he removed a small metal ray gun.
From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019
Gingerly, early on in the night when I didn’t think there was a chance of being caught, I’d tiptoe into the master bedroom and enter a grown-up, never before seen world.
From Salon • Aug. 21, 2012
Gingerly, I walked up the driveway where tufts of weed now grew between the sun-faded bricks.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
Vocabulary lists containing gingerly
A Long Walk to Water
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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List 6
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