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a. Of, resembling, characteristic of, or pertaining to ants; formic.
Usage examples of "antly".
Expelliarmus saved me from Voldemort two years ago,” Harry added defiantly.
Weasley had appeared out of thin air at the gate, accompanied by Rufus Scrimgeour, instantly recognizable by his mane of grizzled hair.
Regulus was instantly recognizable as the boy sitting in the middle of the front row: He had the same dark hair and slightly haughty look of his brother, though he was smaller, slighter, and rather less handsome than Sirius had been.
A fire sprang up instantly: It gave the illusion of coziness to the stark stone walls and glistened off the long wooden table.
He had always thought of Splinching as something comical, but this … His insides crawled unpleasantly as Hermione laid bare Ron’s upper arm, where a great chunk of flesh was missing, scooped cleanly away as though by a knife.
He venerated Snape, the first Slytherin headmaster since he himself had controlled the school, and they had to be careful not to criticize or ask impertinent questions about Snape, or Phineas Nigellus would instantly leave his painting.
And tears came before he could stop them, boiling hot then instantly freezing on his face, and what was the point in wiping them off or pretending?
And it came to Harry instantly where he had seen the boy before: in The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore, arm in arm with the teenage Dumbledore, and that must be where all the missing photographs were: in Rita’s book.
Was it only reluctantly that Dumbledore set out to capture the man he was once so delighted he had met?
He glanced around constantly, imagining that he could feel his seat prickling.
But once you’re eleven,” he nodded importantly, “and they start training you, then you’ve got to go careful.
Distantly he heard Snape shout at her in his humiliation and his fury, the unforgivable word: “Mudblood.
How strange that in his dread of death, it pumped all the harder, valiantly keeping him alive.
Instantly, back on his feet, Ptath snatched at the two other men, caught them, held them up for a moment, one twisting, struggling body in each hand, then flung them angrily aside.
Mists rose from it, and an exudation of heat and above all, a tantalizing odor that pleasantly tickled his nostrils.