How To Use Dumbly In A Sentence
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I think you were dumbly trying to convey antagonist or even an antipathist moron.
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looked at each other dumbly, quite disconcerted
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An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly.
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When I did no more than dumbly blink back he straightened and gave me a rather speculative look before finally breaking into a slow smirk.
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An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly.
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He stared dumbly at the end of the cable - the end which should have been connected to the computer!
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They stood watching dumbly in horrible fascination after it shattered.
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Given the gory, carnage strewn 250-plus pages that precede that statement, the reader can only nod dumbly in agreement.
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The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, once dumbly remote from one another, were models of "jointness," as the military calls its long-sought-after (and rarely achieved) goal of cooperation between the services.
The Secret War
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The employees stared dumbly after him, all of them dressed alike, members of the same club.
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The storme encreasing more and more, and they coveting to avoyd it as well as they could; sighes and drie hemmes were often inter-vented, as dumbly (before) they were wont to doe, when willingly they could affoord another kinde of speaking.
The Decameron
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And I could only stare, my mouth hung open dumbly like a cow gumming its cud.
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The first time Stepmother Edna hit me I was convinced it was a mistake and waited dumbly for an apology.
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Seventeen in years, in the down upon his face and in growth unretarded by any great nervosity of system, his vacuity of face was not that of childhood, but rather as if his light eyes were peering out from some hinterland and wanting so terribly and so dumbly to communicate what they beheld to brain-cells closed against himself.
Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
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The first time Stepmother Edna hit me I was convinced it was a mistake and waited dumbly for an apology.
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An enormous cardboard cutout of a short, stubby penguin lay on the ground, the beady black eyes staring up at her dumbly.
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I nodded dumbly and he slit the envelope
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He felt dumbly the meaning of her smile.
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I am dumbly entranced by what appears to be an increasing fusion of images of Indian tradition and global modernity, in the flow of advertising, music clips and movie sequences.
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And I could only stare, my mouth hung open dumbly like a cow gumming its cud.
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I stare dumbly from behind a glass At snow falling down the blinded door.
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Cochrane merely nodded dumbly, staring at the approaching Dead Hands.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
