12 examples of inanely in sentences

The mouth kept jabbering, inanely, and once emitted a half-swinish grunt.

The people shouted the name of France with cries of applause, but the King only smiled inanely and stammered some inappropriate words in Italian.

Also, without doubt, he voiced, though inanely, the innate resentment of the English peasant against the great sixteenth century robber families and their sycophants.

At last, Skinny, handing a towel to Bert after drying his own sun-tanned face and hands, remarked inanely: "Chuck ain't come, has he?" "Slupper!"

"It has been a good autumn for flowers," I said inanely, for so many things were flying through my mind that I could not at once think of the great particular words which should bring us together.

" "From yonder sky," grinned Jimsy, trying, not very successfully, to assume an inanely cheerful tone, "not badly hurt, old man, are you?" "No.

Old Man Harding cackled inanely, but said nothing.

"Delivered it safely," I repeated inanely.

"I thought you were drunk," he observed inanely, as is common to men who have just come through situations for which no words have been coined.

Onetwofoursixsevenin they poured, tumbling over my legs, panting, giggling inanely, exhorting each other to hurryan old man, two youths, three middle-aged women, and a little girl about four years old.

the gendarme queried, rather inanely I thought.

Casey saw all sorts and sizes of cars pass to and fro, and most of them stopped at his door, for gas or for water or oil, or perhaps merely to inquire inanely if they were on the right road to Needles or to Los Angeles, as the case might be.

12 examples of  inanely  in sentences