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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
wonderingly
adverb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ She stared at him wonderingly.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ewan would stand and gaze wonderingly at the naked boy forming before his eyes.
▪ He touched them wonderingly, without fear, speculating on what it was that was different.
▪ I stared wonderingly at the small, wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber.
▪ She looks at me, wonderingly.
▪ She touched her cheek wonderingly, cupping her hand over the kiss.
▪ Soo stared at him wonderingly, as if he had just struck her.
▪ That they remain so wonderingly wide-eyed in a business sold on cynicism is nothing less than miraculous.
▪ You look at it, wonderingly.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Wonderingly

Wonderingly \Won"der*ing*ly\, adv. In a wondering manner.

Wiktionary
wonderingly

adv. In a wondering manner; with wonderment.

WordNet
wonderingly

adv. in a curious and questioning manner; "they turned their heads questioningly, as if awaiting further instructions" [syn: questioningly]

Usage examples of "wonderingly".

The stranger stood on the bank for some seconds, in silent communion with the Baptist, who gazed upon him wonderingly.

He left Dade standing at the bar looking at him wonderingly, and made his way slowly to the table where Taggart sat.

Lady looked up at him with wide eyes wonderingly, and Ralph, beholding her, deemed that all he had heard of her goodness was but the very sooth.

Her brain registered the familiar voice she had heard earlier, and she looked wonderingly out to the other kone hanging in the distance.

Wonderingly he contemplated the prospect of a Barnacle improved, a comfortable Barnacle, owning, among other things, a smaller, more ignorant Barnacle, who would fetch his food and beer.

Lady Bellamy looked at her wonderingly, for her eyes could still express her emotions.

Chapter 21 Milt Warden, as he debated checking out of this game himself, was thinking somewhat the same thing, just as wonderingly, about a different woman.

As Poly spoke the child raised one golden-brown hand, looking wonderingly at the five outstretched fingers.

His skin was parched, the wrinkles scored so deeply that they were like gaping ravines, but his eyes were a bright, clear blue as they looked Porta wonderingly up and down.

He stood perfectly still in an attitude of arrested motion, his eyes, wonderingly at first, and then with a strange, unanalysable expression, seeming to embark upon a lengthened, a scrupulous, an almost horrified estimate of his surroundings.

Emily wonderingly asked where Gertrude was, and learned that she was out walking with Willie.

Then she looked up at the Norths, wonderingly, and on up at the windows of the top floor.

Jack was staring wonderingly at this novel method of attack by flinging rubbish apparently at large, when once more the Panthay above thrust his head through the rift and spoke a few words, his voice ringing down hollow into the depths where the three prisoners stood.

He kneeled between her wide-spread knees with his throbbingly erect cock pressed against the back of the seat, and ran his hands wonderingly over the smoothly rounded mounds of her ass.

A time machine, thought Boley wonderingly, I guess what he meant was a machine that traveled in time.