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
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
Louis looked up acquiescently, and slipped his hand into Hamilton's.
From Louis' School Days A Story for Boys by E. J. (Edith J.) May
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
