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Intently

Intently \In*tent"ly\, adv. In an intent manner; as, the eyes intently fixed.

Syn: Fixedly; steadfastly; earnestly; attentively; sedulously; diligently; eagerly.

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intently

adv. In an intent or focused manner.

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intently

adv. with strained or eager attention; "listened intently"; "stood watching intently"

Usage examples of "intently".

The pickets held back, but they watched him intently and closely, and as he stepped away from them down the corridor, following Adelaide, they stalked after him with hard and humorless faces.

They sat quietly, not talking, listening intently for some new note, but knowing all the while that any sound the Pirate might make would be concealed by the whirring roar of the air sweeping past the giant airfoils of the plane.

Su Ang stares intently at Pierre who is watching Boris as he raises the jug to his lips and begins to drink.

Jela, who had been quietly and intently regarding the building from his place next to her at the mouth of a convenient alley, the Batcher hovering behind them both.

Bergen intently, and Bergen sensed that this comment had a personal application.

He had watched intently as the first pale bluewings glistened and fluttered up.

A tag-end of green curled and disappeared behind a tree root and Carole, watching intently, grabbed an oar and turned the boat, paddling for shore.

He took the instrument in his big hand and watched the clocklike face intently.

She had been walking with ap Fathag and Conal, which was all right, but now ap Fathag had gone on ahead and she seemed to be talking intently to Conal.

Blix listened intently, but Condy could not have told of what he was reading.

It stood much too close to him, almost nose to nose, great sad cowlike eyes peering intently into his as it extolled with mournful mooing urgency the quality of its wares.

Soon after, turning her eyes on Denbigh, who had been speaking to her at the moment, she saw him looking intently on the two soldiers, who were making their way through the crowd to the place where she sat.

Carter did not wish to meet a Dhole, so listened intently for any sound in the unknown depths of bones about him.

She stabilized it in an instant, and she finished the solo perfectly, but when she looked up at the control-room window again, she saw Devi watching her intently.

Throckmorton listened intently as Gamay and Paul took turns describing their trip with Neal.