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reassuringly

adv. In a reassuring manner.

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reassuringly

adv. in a reassuring manner; "the prime minister pointed reassuringly to the silence of the British press"

Usage examples of "reassuringly".

He drew a breath and made himself look even bigger, blessed with the wonderful physique of all the Antonians, the curly auburn hair, the reassuringly unintellectual face.

Eyes the color of black diamonds sparkled back at her, lips that would make a sculptor weep curved reassuringly.

Nimitz bleeked softly at her from where he lay beside her seat in a highly nonregulation nest of folded blankets, and she smiled down at him reassuringly.

She snorted, tossing her head and, not knowing what else to do, Ken spoke to her reassuringly, patting her neck with tentative strokes, uncertain whether she would resent being touched.

Blaize moved restively, and she fought the desire to pet the stallion reassuringly.

He reappeared, leading a Dobermann pinscher which had about it the homicidal appearance shared by many members of its breed: it was, reassuringly, muzzled.

While her body shook with the shock of so intense an emotional and physical completion, Silas held her tenderly, whispering reassuringly to her that there would be time enough later for him to achieve the same ecstatic state, that there would be all the time in the world for them to share and explore their physical desire for one another, just as they would share and explore their love.

Rivkah smiled reassuringly at her, knowing she was nervous about meeting Belial again.

She followed him through a door marked AUTHORIZED PERSONS ONLY, into the exhibit laboratory, a reassuringly familiar place with its display cases and smells of shellac and camphor, acetone and ethyl alcohol.

At the sight of the reassuringly familiar shape of a local boat, he realised how much he had dreaded seeing Budo Budda's ketch instead.

Riley handed Kaycee another piece of toast, smiled reassuringly at the little girl, then looked back at Car alie.

Odis bellowed reassuringly at the massive creature whose thyroid glands he was tapping.

According to the Geneva Convention, those red crosses guaranteed immunity against enemy attacks, and as the San Andreas had so far been reassuringly immune those aboard her who had never been subjected to an enemy attack of any kind tended to believe in the validity of the Geneva Convention.

To Jasper Billington Innes he replied reassuringly, 'Your horse Lilyglit is good enough to win without help.

I headed straight for the equipment hut where the diesel generator was thudding away reassuringly for it was unlikely that anyone of us would be missed-no one would probably be aware of the presence of any other than his immediate neighbours--and the best place to sit out a wild goose chase was the warmest and most sheltered spot I could find.