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How To Use Demurely In A Sentence

  • The dialogue continues, with the banks demurely declining as the government exhorts.
  • He seated himself demurely with his legs drawn closely to one side, posing for the cameras as though for a fashion shoot.
  • Jimmy Camicia was the writer/director/producer cum chief cook and bottle-washer of the “Hot Peaches” troupe, as he likes to demurely put it. Jackie Curtis…zany Warhol star! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
  • He had originally proposed an idea for a tamer programme, aimed at a young audience but with contestants sitting demurely on a sofa answering general knowledge questions.
  • Unwilling to enter till the children were dismissed he remained here till young voices could be heard in the open air, and girls in white pinafores over red and blue frocks appeared dancing along the paths which the abbess, prioress, subprioress, and fifty nuns had demurely paced three centuries earlier. Jude the Obscure
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  • You know what a mouse-like little walk he has, scratching along the sidewalk so demurely; but to-night, after he passed our place I heard him actually break into a hippety-hop, and as A Certain Rich Man
  • You can be demurely sipping a cup of tea on the veranda of the old Moana Hotel, or boldly practicing your marksmanship at the Royal Hawaiian Shooting Club.
  • the army girl, tall and demurely pretty, threw a quick side-glance at her
  • Later, she is presented as a rather dowdy vestal virgin or as an elegant but staid matron demurely working on her embroidery.
  • New Haven one Saturday evening, and being dressed in black, was taken for a minister, and asked to preach: he was apparently a little insane, and at first talked "demurely," but at last "railed like Rabshakeh, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863
  • Looking at the woman, demurely gowned in mutedly iridescent silk, her fingers resting lightly on her husband's sleeve, Derian was at first inclined to dismiss those rumors as mere superstitious talk. Through Wolfs Eyes
  • Up he came, whom Charlotte welcomed very demurely, and so left us, saying that she must go about her household business; but as she departed she cast a look back at me, making a "moue," as the French say, with her red lips. A Monk of Fife
  • Looking prim and proper, and every inch a little lady, Miss Destiny looked demurely down at her hands.
  • There are new people; exotic foods and ideas, all calling demurely from ever ... Matador Network
  • Later, she is presented as a rather dowdy vestal virgin or as an elegant but staid matron demurely working on her embroidery.
  • She sat with her hands folded demurely in her lap.
  • The figure in a modest black gown and lacy apron bowed her head demurely.
  • The girls are all demurely dressed in pleated navy blue skirts with pale blue and white sailor tops.
  • She kissed him goodbye demurely, and he tipped his hat and set off with a swagger and a too tight gold band on his little finger.
  • Advertisements for Harvard dealers pointed out demurely that remuneration was no obstacle for the right person.
  • She demurely rearranged her skirts and sat with her back erect.
  • Gleaming with oil, demurely home from the palaestra or the dance. MIND MELD: Gods by the Bushel
  • Whereat nurse smiled demurely, knowing that that was the last thing to be afraid of in connexion with her child. A Little Bush Maid
  • The centerfold is a demurely posed (for our standards of 2008), extremely fit young black woman. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, resides demurely in the shadow cast by its more flamboyant sister city, Sydney.
  • In subsequent prints, the demurely phallic-shaped object gradually metastasizes into a whorling explosion.
  • The neck line dipped demurely and the long sleeves puffed slightly at the shoulders.
  • The centerfold is a demurely posed for our standards of 2008, extremely fit young black woman. A Conversation, and an Afterword
  • And if you lock at those clips of her in court -- you know how she has that sweater and she ` s kind of demurely, you know, fastening the button over her breast? CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2009
  • Then she cleared her throat and slipped demurely into the seat next to his at the multiterminal computer console where he'd been studying data on genetic variations within the Empyrean population. The Better Man
  • KELLEY ON BUSHAuthor Kitty Kelley sat demurely through a lengthy and glowing introduction of herself before a lunch gathering at Georgetown's 1789 restaurant on Wednesday. Capitol Letter: The Zoning Battle
  • His wife of twenty-two years is sitting catty-corner to him in a turquoise T-shirt with a tropical fish swimming across her chest; but her slim ankles are demurely crossed, the resting pose of one of those fifties starlets who swished around on-screen in full skirts, sheer hose, and kitten heels. THE HUSBANDS AND WIVES CLUB
  • Demurely as she sat there behind the tea-urn – for Dr. Gregory still engrossed all the attention of his guest, as far as talking was concerned – Fleda was again inwardly smiling to herself at the oddity and the pleasantness of the chance that had brought those three together in such a quiet way, after all the weeks she had been seeing Mr. Carleton at a distance. Queechy
  • Sitting demurely on the couch, I quietly spasmed in orgasm. Ballardian » Ballardian/Savoy Microfiction competition winners
  • It is the silver lining to my -- cloud," demurely; "dull clothes are dreadful when the sky is dark. The Trumpeter Swan
  • I think we will, and I'll say it demurely which is hard for me, better weather this storm then most others which is why we are projecting the kind of growth in EBITDA that we suggest for next year. Pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
  • We are all Naturally Im - pudent; only lyQuJlom, and Fig-leaves, we have been taught to Dif - guife the Matter, and Look Demurely; and that's it which we call Modejly. Fables of Æsop, and other eminent mythologists : with morals and reflexions.
  • With her dark eyes and hair, her prominent cheekbones and chin, she looks like Jackie Kennedy, only a taller, rangier version, not so coiffed and demurely feminine. Imperfect endings
  • She sat demurely, which was very unlike her usual loud and unruly self, and stared at the wall, barely blinking.
  • Obama envoy warns of 'no deal' summit group is being told to dress more 'demurely'. WN.com - Articles related to All's well for Brad Paisley, who's set to play MSG
  • The girls are all demurely dressed in pleated navy blue skirts with pale blue and white sailor tops.

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