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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fixedly
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
stare fixedly (=without moving your head or eyes)
▪ Harry stared fixedly out of the window.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
gaze
▪ He compromised by gazing fixedly into the middle distance, where moorland and forest drifted by and could be contemplated almost casually.
▪ Nathan gazed fixedly at her for a moment with an expression she couldn't fathom, then disappeared again.
stare
▪ Isabel stared fixedly ahead of her, wondering if she had heard aright.
▪ Rachel stared fixedly at his tanned throat where the white shirt was unbuttoned.
▪ Lorton was staring fixedly at him.
▪ Alarmed by that thought, she stared fixedly if unseeingly in front of her.
▪ The two men were now staring fixedly at each other.
▪ Finally, he could do nothing but stare fixedly into those ancient eyes.
▪ As he talked, he was staring fixedly at her.
▪ She jerked her head round quickly towards where the Men usually came from and stared fixedly.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She stared fixedly at the highway.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Abie peered fixedly at the way ahead.
▪ Isabel stared fixedly ahead of her, wondering if she had heard aright.
▪ Lorton was staring fixedly at him.
▪ Rachel stared fixedly at his tanned throat where the white shirt was unbuttoned.
▪ She carries a key, a symbol also associated with Hecate, and gazes fixedly in front of her.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fixedly

Fixedly \Fix"ed*ly\ (f[i^]ks"[e^]d*l[y^]), adv. In a fixed, stable, or constant manner.

Wiktionary
fixedly

adv. in a fixed manner

WordNet
fixedly

adv. in a fixed manner; "he stared at me fixedly"

Usage examples of "fixedly".

And he became aware of Budgie looking fixedly at the figure in the door, her face radiant.

Whistling tunelessly as the sailors aboard the Darielle had done, they stared fixedly ahead or eastward, fingering amulets and making warding gestures in the direction they dared not look.

Cleggett, looking Loge fixedly in the eye, withdrew his right hand from beneath his coat, and laid his magazine pistol on the table under his hand.

The black giant, unconcerned by their strange position, was glaring fixedly at Phy as if at some evil magician from whom any malign impossibility could be expected.

For answer, Rosa handed her the flannel, and turned to stare fixedly out of the rondavel window.

Mieltrude and Sune sat staring fixedly ahead, ignoring Jubal as if he were a noxious odor.

The wolf Tark was gazing fixedly at Barin and Nelson heard his thought.

The Bursar shuffled some papers and then looked fixedly at the doorknob which he could see slightly to the left of the porter.

Upon the whole, the metempsychosis may be understood, as to its inmost meaning and its final issue, to be either a Development, a Revolution, or a Retribution, a Divine system of development eternally leading creatures in a graduated ascension from the base towards the apex of the creation, a perpetual cycle in the order of nature fixedly recurring by the necessities of a physical fate unalterable, unavoidable, eternal, a scheme of punishment and reward exactly fitted to the exigencies of every case, presided over by a moral Nemesis, and issuing at last in the emancipation of every purified soul into infinite bliss, when, by the upward gravitation of spirit, they shall all have been strained through the successively finer growing filters of the worlds, from the coarse grained foundation of matter to the lower shore of the Divine essence.

Foma sat all this time in his corner, listening to the conversation between the Mayakins, and, blinking perplexedly, he fixedly examined the newcomer.

All this time Questioner had not even turned his head to look at her, but had kept his gaze fixedly toward the east.

The men flushed and raised their eyes to stare fixedly at their own girls as if nonchalantly, yet would their eyes flick uncommanded to the side.

Still holding the knife, Boran moved his thumb across her lips roughly, again and again, staring fixedly at what he was doing.

He stared fixedly at the southern end of Sabbioncello, where according to his list there was a small yard belonging to one Boccanegra: but as Boccanegra, a Sicilian, had a father-inlaw of importance among the Carbonari and their sometimes very curious allies, Stephen was not sure that his yard was part of the bargain.

Then, and only then, did he recognize his youngest son, standing rigidly before him, swaying slightly, staring fixedly at Dulan with a face empty of expression.