Use vaguely in a sentence
Sentences starting with vaguely
- Vaguely she realized what had been working in him, but yet the knowledge was dim indeed. [11]
Sentences ending with vaguely
- He put his thoughts more gently, more vaguely. [11]
- It had been seen vaguely. [11]
- Through his great love for her it was given to Colonel Carvel to divine it--only vaguely. [9]
- I was speaking for the thing that is in my heart, that is life of my life," she added vaguely. [11]
- Out of the corner of his mental vision--without grasping it--the Honourable Hilary perceived this vaguely. [9]
Sentences containing vaguely two or more times
- His name was in the class of those vaguely familiar: vaguely familiar, too, was his face. [9]
- Though the Chevalier and her grandfather vaguely noted these changes, they as vaguely set them down to her growing womanhood. [11]
More example sentences with the word vaguely in them
- The average American will be inclined to regard the program of the new British Labour Party as the embodiment of what he vaguely calls Socialism, and to him the very word is repugnant. [9]
- In short, those who made it a custom to observe such matters felt vaguely a disturbance of some kind. [9]
- The gazettes from which the old prince first heard of the defeat at Austerlitz stated, as usual very briefly and vaguely, that after brilliant engagements the Russians had had to retreat and had made their withdrawal in perfect order. [2]
- The glamour to which Janet had yielded herself was on occasions slightly troubled by some new and enigmatic element to be detected in his voice and glances suggestive of intentions vaguely disquieting. [9]
- Was it this which had been more or less vaguely working in his mind a little while before when she had noticed a change in him; or was it that he was disappointed that they were two and no more--always two, and no more? [11]
- The day in which David knocked him down saw the depths of his degradation reached, and, when he got up, it was to start on a new life uncertainly, vaguely at first, but a new life for all that. [11]
- From vaguely admiring what she looked at, she began to be critical; this and that could be changed to advantage; this shade of hanging was not harmonious; this light did not fall right. [4]
- The members of what had once been an army--Napoleon himself and all his soldiers fled--without knowing whither, each concerned only to make his escape as quickly as possible from this position, of the hopelessness of which they were all more or less vaguely conscious. [2]
- She vaguely felt, what all realise sooner or later, that we must live our dark hours alone. [11]
- It is not well; when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time--it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. [5]
- It is not well, when writing an autobiography, to follow your ancestry down too close to your own time--it is safest to speak only vaguely of your great-grandfather, and then skip from there to yourself, which I now do. [5]
- The word "plague" was used very vaguely, as in the description of the "great sickness" found among the Indians by the expedition of 1622. [3]
- He said there was only one path and that it was but vaguely defined. [5]
- At St. Petersburg, Vienna, and elsewhere he had been vaguely conscious of these social changes; but they did not come within the ambit of his daily life, and so it had not mattered. [11]
- Necessarily, then, these various clusters of whites must have heard of the great river of the far west; and indeed, they did hear of it vaguely,--so vaguely and indefinitely, that its course, proportions, and locality were hardly even guessable. [5]
- Perhaps he knew, vaguely, why she had not followed him at once. [9]
- Indeed, so delicately, vaguely, had the work been done that only eyes like Gaston's, trained to observe, with the sight of a hawk and a sense of the mysterious, could have seen so quickly or so distinctly. [11]
- I remember it vaguely, for my head was hot and throbbing from my exertions in such a climate. [9]
- It troubled him vaguely, for Mr. Parr was the aggressor; and often at dusk, when Hodder was working under his study lamp, the telephone would ring, and on taking down the receiver he would hear the banker's voice. [9]
- He felt only vaguely, as outside things, the ache and burn and throb of the muscles of his body. [13]
- For Cynthia was vaguely troubled at having found one discontent. [9]
- She had heard vaguely that there was such a thing as "landlord's corn" which was sometimes given to the peasants. [2]
- She only knew vaguely that she was glad of it in a more personal than impersonal way. [11]
- There was something vaguely ominous in his attitude. [9]
- Moreover, everybody knew vaguely of Natasha's engagement to Prince Andrew, and knew that the Rostovs had lived in the country ever since, and all looked with curiosity at a fiancee who was making one of the best matches in Russia. [2]
- I was only vaguely conscious of her presence, for during my severe struggle I could see nothing but my adversary. [10]
- Yet we do vaguely and hazily wonder why she takes the trouble to say it; why she wastes the words; what her object can be--seeing that that emergency has been in so many, many ways, and so effectively and drastically barred off and made impossible. [5]
- They have heard vaguely about the United States and the equator, but they think both of them are monarchies. [5]
- Some, indeed, stirred uneasily as the rector paused, lowering their eyes before the intensity of his glance, vaguely realizing that the man had flung the whole passion of his being into the appeal. [9]
- Perrot knew certain traits of Iberville of which De Casson was ignorant, and the abbe knew many depths which Perrot never even vaguely plumbed. [11]
- As he began to wash the blood stains from her breast and carefully rebandage the wound, he was vaguely conscious of a strange, grave happiness in the thought that she might live. [13]
- From its base to the soaring tops of its mighty towers, all its lines and all its details vaguely suggest human architecture. [5]
- It was full to overflowing--one side of it; and I did not miss (save vaguely, in rare moments of weariness) any other side that might have been developed. [9]
- Lali had kept to herself, sending word through Richard that she would not "be English," as she vaguely put it, that day. [11]
- There had been times during the past weeks when she had been aware of new and vaguely disquieting portents. [9]
- After a considerable time--he could not tell how long--his senses struggled to a half-consciousness, and as he lay with closed eyes vaguely wondering where he was and what had been happening, he noted a murmurous sound, the sullen beating of rain upon the roof. [5]
- As they passed through it, Jessica was vaguely aware of the rich fragrance of fallen leaves and the sound of waves washing the foot of the cliffs. [11]
- Her feelings towards this thing did not assume the proportions of jealousy or fear; they were merely alert, vaguely disquieting. [9]
- He felt the thing wearing on him, and he hesitated to speculate on the result; but he knew vaguely that it would end in disaster. [11]
- He had seen the tears in her eyes, and though he could not guess the cause, he vaguely thought it might be due to his announcement that she had lost a friend. [11]
- As soon as the important faculties of the imagination, wonder, and curiosity, together with some power of reasoning, had become partially developed, man would naturally crave to understand what was passing around him, and would have vaguely speculated on his own existence. [1]
- Vaguely, not decisively, the hazy, indolent air of summer was broken by the lazy droning of the locusts and grasshoppers. [11]
- As she left the car Janet was aware of the presence on the platform of an unusual number of people; she wondered vaguely, as she pushed her way through them, why they were there, what they were talking about? [9]
- It is probable that when the mind has been strained for a long time, and the heart and body suffered much, one sees a calamity vaguely, and cannot define it; appreciates it, and does not know it. [11]
- She vaguely felt that there had been justice and punishment. [11]
- Cicero frequently said that political economy was the grandest consummation that the human mind was capable of consuming; and even our own Greeley had said vaguely but forcibly that "Political-- [Here the lightning-rod man sent up another call for me. [5]
- Eglington vaguely knew that now he was to face some trial of mind and nerve, but with great deliberation he continued dropping liquid from a bottle into the glass retort he carried, his eyes, however, watchful of his visitor, who involuntarily stared around the laboratory. [11]
- And the fact that his attitude toward her had been one of sympathy and friendliness rather than of disapproval, that his insight seemed to have fathomed her case, apprehended it in all but the details, was even more disturbing--yet vaguely consoling. [9]
- Lali felt vaguely that here was her possible enemy. [11]
- Breathing hard, Terry stood still in the middle of the stage, the red fog not yet gone out of his eyes, his hands clasped at his side, vaguely realising the audience again. [11]
- I stood still, staring vaguely at the dial as in a trance. [6]
- A reverently preserved souvenir of him is still one of the treasures of the islands: I gathered the idea, vaguely, that it was a jug, but was persistently thwarted in the twenty-two efforts I made to visit it. [5]
- He suddenly felt sorry for her and was vaguely conscious that he might be the cause of the sadness her face expressed. [2]
- I vaguely remember some of the details of that gathering--dimly I can see a hundred people--no, perhaps fifty--shadowy figures sitting at tables feeding, ghosts now to me, and nameless forevermore. [5]
- As he did so he vaguely wondered why Krool had overlooked it as he passed in and out. [11]
- When she had so amazingly yielded, the thought for which my mind had been vaguely groping was that the woman who lay there in my arms, obscured by the darkness, was not Nancy at all! [9]
- At such moments she would turn to the typewriter, her fingers striking the keys with amazing rapidity, with extraordinary accuracy and force,--force vaguely disturbing to Mr. Claude Ditmar as he entered the office one morning and involuntarily paused to watch her. [9]
- He spoke, and she vaguely wondered what passage in the letter had fixed his attention. [11]
- Vaguely, cloudily, the scene passed before her. [11]
- Left alone, he sat down on the edge of the bed, and, for a few moments, his mind strayed almost vaguely from one object to another. [11]
- In answer to Rostov's inquiry where he was going, he answered vaguely and crossly that he had some business. [2]
- We followed the road through the village for a space, then turned off to the right, and wandered somewhat vaguely, for want of precise directions, over the hills. [6]
- Every man of reflection is vaguely conscious of an imperfectly-defined circle which is drawn about his intellect. [6]
- It was a poor apartment, with a shabby bed and some odds and ends of old furniture in it, and was vaguely lighted by a couple of sickly candles. [5]
- One of our people was at last penetrated with something vaguely akin to compassion, may be, for he looked out through the gratings at the guardian officer, pacing to and fro, and said: "Say, Mickey, this shrimp's goin' to die. [5]
- It was the only thing in which Byng had proved invulnerable, and Krool had remained a menace which she vaguely felt and tried to conquer, which, in vain, Adrian Fellowes had endeavoured to remove. [11]
- In telling the old woman's story, he alluded only vaguely to those peculiar circumstances to which she had attributed so much importance, taking it for granted that the other minister must be familiar with the whole series of incidents she had related. [6]
- It is worthy of note that the figure by no means bears out Gratiolet's description, inasmuch as the fissure (antero- temporal) on the posterior half of the face of the hemisphere is more marked than any of those vaguely indicated in the anterior half. [1]
- If I were not, might not this be the reason for the lack of synthesis--of which I was abruptly though vaguely aware between my professional life, my domestic relationships, and my relationships with friends. [9]
- Yet we did not suspect how rapidly the end was approaching and only grew vaguely alarmed. [5]
- The question was not aimed directly at his host--it was in the nature of a renewed appeal to a tribunal which had been mute, but with which he now seemed vaguely aware of a certain contact. [9]
- In the valley, near the Acropolis, (the square-topped hill before spoken of,) Athens itself could be vaguely made out with an ordinary lorgnette. [5]
- I must force myself to recall the circumstances as told me and vaguely remembered, for I am not willing that my doomed and wholly exceptional life should pass away unrecorded, unexplained, unvindicated. [6]
- I had seen Mr. Scherer attacked, Mr. Gorse attacked, and Mr. Watling: I had all along realized, vaguely, that my turn would come, and I thought myself to have acquired a compensating philosophy. [9]
- All this, and more, the invaders suggested--atheism, unfamiliarity with soap and water, and, more vaguely, an exotic poetry and art that to the virile of American descent is saturated with something indefinable yet abhorrent. [9]
- The particular had merged (inevitably, I might have known) into the general: the temporary had become the lasting, with a chain of consequences vaguely implied that even in my joy gave me pause. [9]
- It was this material use to which she was so largely assigned, almost involuntarily but none the less truly, that had destroyed all of the finer, dearer, more delicate intimacy invading his mind sometimes, more or less vaguely, where Faith was concerned. [11]
- But his eyes made her vaguely uneasy. [9]
- And as I looked at the green trees in the courtyard, vaguely troubled by I knew not what, some one came and stood in the doorway. [9]
- Mr. Atterbury insists, like others who cling to that dogma, that I have become what he vaguely calls an Unitarian. [9]
- Even when, at last, a telegram came which the clerk vaguely felt was, somehow, like the fall of an empire, Mr. Vandewaters remained unmoved. [11]
- From the deeply- laid principle of inherited associations, musical tones in this case would be likely to call up vaguely and indefinitely the strong emotions of a long-past age. [1]
- He, Hodder, had known this, but known it vaguely, without sanction. [9]
- He himself scarcely knew what he was saying, and heard his own voice as vaguely as though it were the distant roar of waves. [10]
- As David spoke, Kaid's face grew darker, his fingers fumbled vaguely with the linen of the loose white robe he wore. [11]
- There was in it a sign of awful import--the foreshadowing of a something that was vaguely shaping itself in every heart--a something which no tongue dared yet to frame into words. [5]
- We were terrified into this by being suddenly confronted with a vast body which showed itself vaguely for an instant and in the next instant was smothered in the fog again. [5]
- It had sounded in his ears at night as he sat on the wide stoop watching the moon and listening to the night-birds, or vaguely heard his mother babbling things he did not hear. [11]
- He was as in a dream, and was only vaguely conscious of the fugitive letter. [11]
- Instead of sixteen hundred rubles he had a long column of figures scored against him, which he had reckoned up to ten thousand, but that now, as he vaguely supposed, must have risen to fifteen thousand. [2]
- I was vaguely hoping, all the past week, that my Xmas cablegram would be definite, and make you all jump with jubilation; but the thought always intruded itself, "You are not going out there to negotiate with a man, but with a louse. [5]
- I vaguely resented his laudatory references to my father. [9]
- Then he asked himself what Uarda's fate would be without her grandparents, and a strange plan which had floated vaguely before him for some hours, began now to take a distinct outline and intelligible form. [10]
- She had made herself his nurse, and no one had seriously interfered, though the Cure had not at all vaguely offered a protest to Madame Lavilette. [11]
- Denzil had studied her, and he knew vaguely that a fresh interest, disturbing, electrifying, had entered into her. [11]
- As she reached her own door, a voice vaguely familiar called her name. [9]
- Like most men, he had a touch of vanity too, and he might have resented the words vaguely, had he not remembered his talk with his mother an hour before. [11]
- She could not have expressed her emotions in words, but she vaguely felt that the world had become poorer, and that henceforth she must think of something more trivial when she tried to imagine the pure happiness which mortals are permitted to enjoy. [10]
- He saw the glimmer of red light afar, and vaguely wondered what it was. [11]
- Her tone, her gesture of anxiety he found vaguely disquieting. [9]
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