Example Sentences

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There is something infantile about his features, something fugitively masked by his glittering eyes and sardonic smile.

From Time Magazine Archive

Though he saw them only fugitively through gaps in the tide of traffic, he felt their companionship.

From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Dawson, Coningsby

But the pace was now so fast and their elevation so great that the landscape swimming beneath his vision was no more than a brownish plain fugitively maculated with blots of contrasting colour.

From The Lone Wolf A Melodrama by Vance, Louis Joseph

Along the ocean, where crevices of the descending iron-chiselled cliffs are fugitively green with ribbons of pale grass, downy-winged ducks purr, mating guillemots coo incessantly, and tremulous oogzooks chirrup joyously to their young.

From The Eternal Maiden by Harré, T. Everett

She had seen him several times in these last days, but only at evening, fugitively, when he came in the boat with the fishermen.

From A Spirit in Prison by Hichens, Robert Smythe