indicatively

Example Sentences

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“I wanted to make something that was indicatively New York,” she said.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2022

And Miss Craydocke nodded up, indicatively, toward the two girl-figures just visible by their draperies in a nook of rock beyond and above the benches.

From A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

Again he waved indicatively, this time toward the window.

From The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu by Rohmer, Sax

She had a moment of abstraction; but now, emerging from it, she used her eyeglass as a pointer, and indicatively swept the circle of painted eavesdroppers.

From My Friend Prospero by Harland, Henry

Or, at least, what we have spoken indicatively, we may speak interrogatively.

From Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Erasmus, Desiderius