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How to use desultorily in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word desultorily? Here are some examples.

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Nearing Chinnavaikal, we see two cows on the shore, one lying torpid in the sun, one nosing around desultorily.
She swallowed the last of her tea in a single gulp and looked desultorily at the empty cup.
As the first battalion of the Irish Guards go through the motions of their normal Tuesday morning practice, the crowds begin to gather desultorily round the Palace forecourt.
The monarchy favoured modern manufacturing and, more desultorily, modern finance.
It shifts desultorily from style to style, with songs barely hanging around long enough to state their case.
Walton, the son of a choirmaster father and a vocalist mother, studied violin and piano desultorily as a boy and also sang, with somewhat better results, in his father's choir.
In the meagre shade of rocky outcroppings, jellaba-clad boys and old men desultorily watch over skinny goats scrounging the arid countryside for scarce fodder.
Those methods are commonly used in other countries and were desultorily considered by the previous, Labour, government. A brave prime minister would revive them.
I read a page here and there, and made acquaintance with a great many authors whom I was content to know thus desultorily.
He took back the book and began to flip desultorily through its pages.
She had been working desultorily on her book for several years.
Examples from Classical Literature
I began to watch him, desultorily, and was rather startled by something more than a suspicion that he himself was watching me.
She came and sat beside me on the river-balcony, and talked a little, desultorily and absent-mindedly.
In time, the talk between the two young men, which had begun so desultorily, warmed up.
I think it will run stiller and stiller year by year, a very quiet, desultorily studious existence.
After supper, he marked seventeen sets of papers desultorily in red pencil, then got up to look for the baby book.
They went on to talk, desultorily, of Don Ippolito, and what he might be like.
The storm wore away as desultorily as it had come, and the long night set in.
All these apartments were now deserted, save for a few flunkeys who stood about desultorily in the window embrasures.
But, tired of playing, he had desultorily come round the fence, and was rambling up behind her.
They had spent some time wandering desultorily thus, Tess eating in a half-pleased, half-reluctant state whatever d'Urberville offered her.
A couple of gnats taught the kids the participation song at the beginning, which the kids desultorily fed back at the climax of the show, when the moral needed emphasizing.
He reheated yesterday's soup and fed her while she stared desultorily at the white landscape, dabbing her lips with a napkin like he used to do with their son.
Seldom picked for softball teams, they spent recesses squatting against the chain link fence of the schoolyard desultorily doing their Hebrew school homework.
I have read desultorily the writings of the younger generation.
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