abandonedly

Example Sentences

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I gazed admiringly at her—to see her sink suddenly into a chair and weep abandonedly!

From The Princess Elopes by MacGrath, Harold

And I have absolutely no valid, no sound, excuse to make but that I am like that!—I mean I am an abandonedly bad writer of letters and acknowledger of kindnesses.

From The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry

"It don't look like we was ever going to get a hitch," said the "Spider," after we had abandonedly offered ourselves to several automobiles.

From Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit by Dorgan, Dick

In the first days of their love she had been his slave; she had admired him abandonedly.

From O Pioneers! by Cather, Willa Sibert

If I hadn’t loved Dinky-Dunk, fondly, foolishly, abandonedly, there would have been no little Dinkie and Poppsy and Pee-Wee.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.