35 examples of painstakingly in sentences
A waiter, painstakingly oblivious, stood two tables back.
The engineer, with garnishments of profanity, considered dueling to be a painstakingly-described absurdity and wished "the old popinjay" joy of his bargain.
A moment later the woman reappeared with a pencil and paper and painstakingly wrote down the address Billie gave her.
What is the difference?" Rolfe, with a Londoner's tolerance for foreign ignorance, painstakingly explained the difference.
I told him about Moses; I explained painstakingly just who the Children of Israel were; and I did my best to point out clearly the difference between manna and manners.
What we plainly behold is that doublet, cut down, and most painstakingly fitted to the child's little mind.
With her own fingers she tied a knot, and rather painstakingly spread out the ends.
Conscientious hard labour has been given, and is being given, to making it more effective along these lines, and almost every year some new scheme is brought forward enthusiastically, tried out painstakingly, and then cast aside ignominiously for some new and even more ingenious device.
"You see," he went on painstakingly, "the situation out there at Cerny is like this: The French and English, but mainly the English, held the ground firSt.
He was at a table in a small Free Library near Greenwich Avenue, and he was copying painstakingly with one hand from a fat volume which he held down with the other.
" Business consisted in dressing me up as an Arab with the aid of Suliman, and drilling me painstakingly for half-an-hour, both of them using every trick they knew to make me laugh or show surprise, and Grim nodding approval each time I contrived not to.
It was like a man letting a child painstakingly construct an edifice of building-blocks and then, when it was completed, suddenly sweeping it aside with his hand.
A man among men, a leader in some sort, and in battle a soldier who could hew his way painstakingly, if not dramatically, to his end, David Kent was no carpet knight, and he knew his lack.
"These frozen abortions are painstakingly made.
All of his experiments in this period were painstakingly set down and he even took the trouble in 1786 to index his agricultural notes and observations for that year.
Over this table-top Mrs. Kelcey had laidwithout thought, it must be admitted, of any intermediary padding such as certain mistaken hostesses consider essentialthree freshly and painstakingly laundered tablecloths, her own, Mrs. Murdison's, and Mrs. Lukens's best, cunningly united by stitches hardly discoverable except by a too-searching eye.
The big bowl of geraniums was removed by Brown himself, who set it carefully upon his reading-table at the side of the room, and the tablecloth was painstakingly manipulated by Tom Kelcey so that hardly a crumb fell upon the floor.
" He made his examination painstakingly, omitting no detail of his inquiry into the state of both heart and lungs.
Brown's talks had to be subject to constant though painstakingly muffled interruptions, as one after another stole into the room.
At the close of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, 71 per cent of the employees in the classified civil service of the islands were Filipinos painstakingly trained for the positions to which they had been appointed.
I promised to meet a friend" Dade shrugged his shoulders and painstakingly smoothed the hair tassel which dangled from the browband.
Horses were being groomed painstakingly at the corrals, and there was always a group around the bear-pen where the two cubs whimpered, and the gaunt mother rolled wicked, little, bloodshot eyes at those who watched and dropped pebbles upon her outraged nose and like cowards remained always beyond her reach.
He remembered that Dill, after the workings of the cattle business from the very beginning had been painstakingly explained to him just before Billy started south, had been anxious to get at least four thousand head of young stock on the range that spring.
" They wrangled with him while he removed the tires he had so painstakingly adjusted, but Casey was firm.
Because, as Babe painstakingly explained, she always kneeled on a lap so ants couldn't run over her toes and tickle her and make her laugh, which would make God think she was a bad, naughty girl.