[
UK
/ɐtˈɛntɪvli/
]
[ US /əˈtɛntɪvɫi/ ]
[ US /əˈtɛntɪvɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
with attention; in an attentive manner
he listened attentively
How To Use attentively In A Sentence
- So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one 5-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? Finding the Next Winner
- So how, precisely, do I find myself the father of a teenage owner of one five-year-old, skewbald, equine quadruped, about 13 hands tall, who answers, rather inattentively, to the name Buttons? History, Horses and the Luck of the Irish
- He again applied his eye to the glass, and turning his ear to the partition, listened attentively: with a subtle and eager look upon his face, that might have appertained to some old goblin. Oliver Twist
- Wyatt screwed his monocle into his eye, regarded both sides of the coin attentively, and laid it down. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On
- But knowledge began in the mind, and was founded on particulars; though afterwards, perhaps, no notice was taken thereof: it being natural for the mind (forward still to enlarge its knowledge) most attentively to lay up those general notions, and make the proper use of them, which is to disburden the memory of the cumbersome load of particulars. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- he listened attentively
- He read long and attentively, various tedious and embarrassed letters, in which the writers, placing before him the glory of God, and the freedom and liberties of England, as their supreme ends, could not, by all the ambagitory expressions they made use of, prevent the shrewd eye of Markham Woodstock
- He sat and listened attentively, supplying her with the occasional wide-eyed stare or gasp.
- We believe it is important to attentively be in touch with our customers.
- Nadgett put on his spectacles, and read the name attentively; then looked at the chairman over his glasses, and bowed; then took them off, and put them in their case; and then put the case in his pocket. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit