approvingly

How To Use approvingly In A Sentence

• They cite approvingly the proliferation of anti-corporate lawsuits and pressure campaigns by community groups and trade unions.
• The reason for our choosing Teheran as a vacation centre was that another couple of members of our group had gone there not long before and spoke of it approvingly; they had stayed a little longer than we and had climbed, or partially climbed, Mount Demavend that was about 19,000 feet high. Coming of Age: 1939-1946
• She clucked her tongue at Zane and shook her head disapprovingly. My Fair Succubi
• He raised his glass, looked at the clear, effervescent liquid with the light glinting invitingly through it, swirled it a little, inhaled approvingly, and took a cautious sip, but he didn't swallow immediately.
• I am loath to quote The New Criterion approvingly, but I agree with Lewis (although I'd change his "immeasurably" to "somewhat"): The State of Criticism
• She was dressed in a modest suit, but looked approvingly at my dress.
• Her mother, dressed in ski-pants, enters and clucks disapprovingly.
• During the hectic review of endless shots of the uniformed generalissimos looking on approvingly in the stadium, he spotted a famous face, an honored guest of the murderous junta.
• He commented approvingly on a British government dossier on the matter that is now widely discredited. Times, Sunday Times
• ‘A broken door will be reported,’ he replied disapprovingly, ‘especially one that has the indentions of your fingers permanently embedded in it.’