Example Sentences

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He eschewed the frantic approach of the top order, watchfully rebuilding with his equally unflappable Surrey team-mate Atkinson.

From BBC • Oct. 24, 2024

STEVENS, Pa. — They settled, watchfully, into position — a retired couple armed with a long-nosed camera and three men with shotguns.

From Washington Post • Feb. 2, 2020

Bangladesh was always behind the required run rate, with Shakib — with two half-centuries already to his name this World Cup — starting watchfully before opening his shoulders.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 8, 2019

Murali Vijay blocks it watchfully, then takes a quick single into the covers.

From The Guardian • Aug. 2, 2018

So her sleep was broken and shallow, on the floor of the shack with all the other sleepers, and her death sat watchfully beside her.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman