How To Use mutely In A Sentence
- In some episodes where a threat lurks, the colored scribbles grow dense and fraught, mutely warning against dangers that the character is too naive to see for himself.
- Once they settled in, my father looked back over his shoulder and asked the children if Santa had found them yet. Three glum faces mutely gave him his answer.
- He looked mutely to the woman in the suit, but she had already slipped out of the viewing chamber, supposedly to give him privacy. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
- Jim held onto his father and kept staring mutely into the microphone.
- While I was thus mutely pondering within myself, and recording my sorrowful complainings with my pen, it seemed to me that there appeared above my head a woman of a countenance exceeding venerable. Consolation of Philosophy
- -- Ipley crooned a ready accompaniment: the sleepers had been awakened: the women and the men were alive, half-dancing, half-chorusing here a baby was tossed, and there an old fellow's elbow worked mutely, expressive of the rollicking gaiety within him: the whole length of the booth was in a pleasing simmer, ready to overboil with shouts humane and cheerful, while Sandra Belloni — Volume 2
- “Innocence always calls mutely for protection,” the book warns, “when we could be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.” Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me
- About the shadowy garden bats had begun to flitter, mutely petitioning. MR GOLIGHTLY'S HOLIDAY
- Oh yes, you are, though," the officer answered, holding his arm very tight, and calling mutely for assistance by a glance at the other policemen. What's Bred in the Bone
- The two dunderheads nodded mutely then bent to pick up the girl.
