STEALTHILY in a Sentence

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37 example sentences for STEALTHILY, such as:

1. But the feeling persisted, stealthily pervading her mind.
2. When the voices died into silence, she rose and crept stealthily away.
3. He feared that if he turned his back the body might spring up and stealthily pursue him.
4. The two brothers looked at him in silence, while Arkady stealthily watched first his father and then his uncle.
5. He looked stealthily at his companions, feeling sure that they must discern in his face evidences of this pursuit.

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 Meanings and Examples of STEALTHILY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
stealthily
 ad.  in a stealthy manner
Classic Sentence: (37 in 3 pages)
1  The cat, unnoticed, had crept up on muffled paws from Zeena's seat to the table, and was stealthily elongating its body in the direction of the milk-jug, which stood between Ethan and Mattie.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  She pressed her hands hard against her skirts, so they would not rustle and backed out as stealthily as an animal.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  They had not stealthily taken garden and pasture and cotton field and lawn and reared themselves insolently by the porches of Tara, as they were doing on numberless plantations throughout the state.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
5  Now, plantation after plantation was going back to the forest, and dismal fields of broomsedge, scrub oak and runty pines had grown stealthily about silent ruins and over old cotton fields.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
6  Mammy edged herself stealthily to a chair beside the door and sank into it wearily, her shapeless body overflowing it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
7  Something was wrong with the world, a somber, frightening wrongness that pervaded everything like a dark impenetrable mist, stealthily closing around Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LX
8  But the feeling persisted, stealthily pervading her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXII
9  He feared that if he turned his back the body might spring up and stealthily pursue him.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
10  He looked stealthily at his companions, feeling sure that they must discern in his face evidences of this pursuit.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
11  When the voices died into silence, she rose and crept stealthily away.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
12  Apparently this marked the consummation of Chichikov's relations with his host, for he hastened stealthily to pack his trunk and, the next day, figured in a fresh lodging.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
13  Arkady looked compassionately at his uncle; Nikolai Petrovitch shrugged his shoulders stealthily.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  The two brothers looked at him in silence, while Arkady stealthily watched first his father and then his uncle.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  He had been sitting on thorns, all through the argument, and had done nothing but glance stealthily, with a sore heart, at Arkady.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
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