acquiescently
Example Sentences
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I nodded acquiescently, but didn’t make the questions any easier.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 22, 2022
Mrs. Dudley was still for a minute and then, moving her head acquiescently, turned and walked deliberately across the kitchen to a farther doorway.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
He nodded acquiescently and spent some twenty minutes in wandering about the library; then he settled down with a book.
From In Jeopardy by Van Tassel Sutphen
To so fair-minded a proposal I held myself acquiescently, and then inquired where the meeting-place in question was destined to be—whether in a ruined and abandoned sanctuary, or upon some precipitous spot of desolation.
From The Mirror of Kong Ho by Ernest Bramah
On the contrary, we have been rather inclined to think them neglectful of all education, and have, above all, listened acquiescently while men deprecated the lack of interest in things scientific displayed by these generations.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by James Joseph Walsh
