How To Use Doubtfully In A Sentence
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Gerald shook his head doubtfully
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Still, it was rather difficult to grasp what mysteriously horrible sense Françoise gave to the word Boche since she was talking about the beginning of the war and uttered the word so doubtfully.
Time Regained
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Compton shook his head doubtfully, and, considering the interview at an end turned to go, when instantly the ball knocked his hat off, and nothing of the malefactress was visible but a black eye sparkling with fun and mischief, and a bit of forehead wedged against the angle of the wall.
A Terrible Temptation A Story of To-Day
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The name Capernaum is doubtfully mentioned in the history, but the occurrence is said to have taken place on the borders of Lycia.
Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
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He looked at it doubtfully for a moment, then, pointing to a remarkable butterfly (_Vanessa Sifflerius_) depicted in the corner, cried: "It's all right; you'll never make a mistake if you keep this insect in the _right bottom corner_.
A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
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The admiral shook it somewhat doubtfully, tipped his cap, and went hurriedly back to the _dogana_, or custom-house.
The Lure of the Mask
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There it was again, thought Aaron, looking doubtfully up into the younger man's Mephistophelian face.
Ishmael
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Uglik is a mighty warrior," said Invar doubtfully.
B. C. 30,000
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Katherine asked, frowning doubtfully, turning back around, still not focussing properly.
BEHINDLINGS
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It became clear that the polysaccharide biosynthesis is not a reversal of the biological breakdown, as had doubtfully been assumed earlier.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1970 - Presentation Speech
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‘Some people might think it's a bit feminine,’ he says doubtfully.
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Then passing by altogether the other idea which I said was only doubtfully suggested by the words -- namely, that of laceration and wounding -- let me say a word about the last of the aspects of humanity when Christless, which is set forth in this text, and that is, the dejected weariness arising from the fruitless wanderings wherewith men are cursed.
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
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Mullen presented 238 world-wide records of acarine parasites of mosquitoes but more than half of the observations concerned unidentified or doubtfully identified mites.
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Joe-Jim's bravoes checked their flight and they looked doubtfully at their master.
Destiny Narrowly Avoided
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The Sikh driver shook his beard doubtfully.
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Not only was he the most careful of English poets, revising his works with almost unprecedented pains, but his scientific habit of mind insists on the greatest accuracy; in his allusions to Nature he often introduces scientific facts in a way thitherto unparalleled, and sometimes even only doubtfully poetic.
A History of English Literature
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I don't suppose," he added doubtfully, `that you go about cutting tiller ropes.
THE LONELY SEA
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Chapter, and is when we speake or write doubtfully and that the sence may be taken two wayes, such ambiguous termes they call _Amphibologia_, we call it the _ambiguous_, or figure of sence incertaine, as if one should say _Thomas Tayler_ saw _William Tyler_ dronke, it is indifferent to thinke either th'one or th'other dronke.
The Arte of English Poesie
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Or perhaps it refers to a curved knife for harvesting grapes (parra = cultivated grapevine) or doubtfully caper (alcaparra).
Machetes y guaparras
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I looked doubtfully down at the bowl full of mush.
