searchingly

How To Use searchingly In A Sentence

• She scanned the baby narrowly, then looked as searchingly at Sandra, whose face was turned to gaze across the fields.
• He looked at us searchingly, a doleful expression demanding our sympathy.
• Corney McVeigh stepped across the ancient threshold and gazed long and searchingly at the face in the darkened parlor; a face seamed and thin with toil and worry, yet infinitely sweet and motherlike to the world-lost man who choked back the tears as he felt again that almost forgotten child-love. Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road
• `Are you really happy with him,' asked her mother, gazing at Vera searchingly
• The door of the pesthouse had opened abruptly and a short, portly man roughly dressed, unshaved and florid of complexion, appeared on the threshold a moment, eyed the approaching girls indifferently, glanced searchingly toward town, and again vanished within, closing the door behind him. Tabitha's Vacation
• She added nothing, except with her eyes, which went wistfully, searchingly, beggingly, into his; till a film of tears gathered, and the book fell, and her arms went round him again and her face was hid. The Hills of the Shatemuc