obligingly

Example Sentences

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Obligingly, Tom shifted bar stools, but with every intention of getting to know Rena better.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 13, 2022

Obligingly, she gets out her bills to show me.

From The Verge • Jun. 25, 2019

Obligingly, the director produced a pair of gloves for her and invited the woman to raise what she had taken to be a cloth so that she might see the grandfather clock beneath.

From Washington Post • Jan. 26, 2018

Obligingly, she took her place in front of the camera, and removed a puppet monkey from her handbag.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 15, 2016

Obligingly, Alexander and Beowulf attacked the striped layer of wallpaper by shoving their fingers under the edge of the seam.

From "The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling" by Maryrose Wood