How To Use Uncertainly In A Sentence
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Babur holds the bag uncertainly, letting it swing.
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My mind flickered uncertainly from one half-formed idea to another.
THE EXECUTION
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The conductor blinked uncertainly; J.B. tended to have that effect on folk, and the four of us were sufficiently large and ugly to daunt the stoutest ticket-walloper.
THE NUMBERS
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The woman stepped back, uncertainly, staring at him with the same suspicion, but overlaid now with doubt.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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It waddled towards the pool, looking less like a predator than like an elderly sumo wrestler tottering uncertainly towards a bout with a reigning champion.
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Now Mike himself was a sad musician, and the sound of him fandangoin 'uncertainly up and down the fretful spine of that instrument was a tribulation I'd put up with on account of friendship, pure and simple, but when that discord-lovin' lady cliff-dweller set all evenin 'in our tent and scraped snake-dances out of them catguts with a fish-bone, I pulled my freight and laid out in the moonlight with the dogs.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
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The marine looked at him uncertainly, then grinned through his curling blond beard, leaned forward over his matchlock, and blew.
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com...'Uh huh...' said Ellie uncertainly, although inside she was starting to feel very excited.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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Katherine frowned, and the bow wavered uncertainly in her hands.
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He stood uncertainly in the opening, his head moving from side to side, his weak eyes unable to penetrate the darkness.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
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The light flickered uncertainly for a moment like a guttering candle.
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His spirit rises up and hovers uncertainly over proceedings.
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The guard bit his lip uncertainly.
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She paused uncertainly before the stall of his chestnut palfrey, and then moved towards the far door, out into the stable yard.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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My eyes strayed uncertainly towards the unmistakably masculine (but elegant) hand that gripped me firmly.
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Feeble steps were heard on the stairs, and an old man, tall and frail, odorous of pipe smoke, with shaggy, unkept gray hair and a dingy beard, tobacco stained about the mouth, entered uncertainly.
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In his sleep he seemed so young and vulnerable, his dark hair disarranged around his face like an errant schoolboy's, his lips fluttering uncertainly every so often as if he was speaking to someone in his dreams.
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The opera as realised by Berio ends quietly, uncertainly, even painfully.
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Common man is taken by surprise for despite an atmosphere charged with uncertainly and fear due to various restrictions and heavy police deployment, the public was mentally prepared to face the verdict, Mishra said and added that even parties to the title suit fully ready for the same, seemed rudely jolted.
The Times of India
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That must be some kind of victory for a man nearing sixty, so long tossed around uncertainly on changeful seas.
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com...'Uh huh...' said Ellie uncertainly, although inside she was starting to feel very excited.
LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
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Startled, the pack had run for the shelter of the trees, where they had milled about uncertainly.
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It was an ingenious but uncertainly developed theme of skipping skeletons and skulls descending hellward.
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Hung uncertainly from the building, the sunshades are precast concrete on the upper level and, on the lower one, black metal.
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Standing up, she tugged down at the tiny skirt, wobbling uncertainly in her tall heels.
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She hovered uncertainly near the front door.
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"Good," he said uncertainly, because he had to say something.
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Light from the ceiling moved uncertainly over the carved wood Quiss was still staring at.
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Extras glance uncertainly at the camera, and at one stage a bewigged gentleman, bent double, is seen scampering out of shot.
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She shook her head uncertainly and drank some of the Coca-Cola which seemed to be on the table in front of her.
LAST SHOT
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Everything, Dale," the name clung uncertainly upon the speaker's lips;
Joyce of the North Woods
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Torn between the aspect of keeping his lousy grade and keeping up with snot-nosed kindergarteners, he sat in the lounge and rolled his papers between his hands uncertainly.
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he paused uncertainly
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I chanced a look up and Liam smiled uncertainly at me.
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A bleary-eyed Dan stood looking uncertainly at Cary.
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In Barrie's Peter Pan - first staged in 1904, novelized (by Barrie himself) in 1911 and filmed uncertainly ever since - we recognize within seconds the hallmarks of the authentic children's classic.
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She hovered uncertainly near the front door.
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Rob was still poised uncertainly on the doorstep, held at bay either by Kim's urgent stare or Bill's bullhorn.
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Once outside, she stood uncertainly for a moment, oblivious to the curious glances of passers-by.
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He began to crawl uncertainly around.
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By slow, painful steps I clambered to my feet, wobbling uncertainly on the rough wooden floor.
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He entered the hallway and stood uncertainly.
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A drunk was standing in the middle of the street, swaying uncertainly and trying hard to stay upright.
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Hiding outside a bar is a good idea, as he does here, concealing himself behind a lamp post when a young woman emerges and ambles uncertainly in his direction.
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The gods and goddesses are overlarge for the spaces they occupy and rest somewhat uncertainly on plinths made up of diaper pattern.
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She paused uncertainly, biting her lip.
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Instead, the first two teams to take the field in the Six Nations this year trotted uncertainly into the watery sunlessness of a late winter afternoon in France and played with a lack of enlightenment that raised the question of why anyone ever thought of Paris as the ‘City of Light.’
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Chiang Stumps Even Her Teacher, the reporter for The Christian Science Monitor listed indehiscence (a botanical term for the state of being closed at maturity), maunder (to move slowly and uncertainly), and cenote (a sinkhole) among a list of eight difficult words she had used, saying that even Wellesley professors had to consult their dictionaries.
The Last Empress
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They look at our tickets uncertainly and say they can't let us in, but perhaps we can speak to their boss, a stern man who is marching across the road towards us even as we turn towards him.
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Berzelius overlooked - accounts only uncertainly for the promotion of sulphurous acid oxidation by stating that the oxygen would be supplied to the oxidizable substance by the oxides of nitrogen in a more convenient or suitable form
Wilhelm Ostwald - Nobel Lecture
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The sound of the rockets, which had been a steady, deep-chested roar, now coughed uncertainly and died away.
ANTI-ICE
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She hovered uncertainly near the front door.
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Other prisoners who had already slopped out stood about uncertainly, their reactions slower.
THE SCAR
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Meredith glanced up uncertainly at the four-storey buildings soaring up forbiddingly on either side of the alley where they were walking.
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Stubbornly she thrust herself upwards into a standing position and wobbled there uncertainly as her body protested.
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He stood uncertainly in the opening, his head moving from side to side, his weak eyes unable to penetrate the darkness.
HE SHALL THUNDER IN THE SKY
