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 Sutphen, Van Tassel

"Well, Hannah, my dear, I think so too, and I have thought so for the last week, only I did not like to hurry you," said Reuben acquiescently.

From Ishmael Or, In the Depths by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

This it is the highest wisdom of men to acquiescently confess.

From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Beardslee, Clark S.