Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a singing manner; with sounds like singing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb whilst
singing ; accompanied by the sounds of singing
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Examples
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On the subject of circle jerks, I could entertain myself for hours looking up the hair-singingly civil manner that countless conservative blogs attacked the idea that Valerie Plame was a covert agent.
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And then his mouth, the mouth she had stared at and yearned for until her body ached with the need burning inside her, was on her own, kissing her; not as she had ever been kissed before, but with a fierce, unrestrained male need that touched a chord some where deep inside her, bringing her quiveringly, singingly, to life.
So Close And No Closer Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1989
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And then his mouth, the mouth she had stared at and yearned for until her body ached with the need burning inside her, was on her own, kissing her; not as she had ever been kissed before, but with a fierce, unrestrained male need that touched a chord some where deep inside her, bringing her quiveringly, singingly, to life.
So Close and No Closer Jordan, Penny, 1946- 1989
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They are all the colors of reality, from lightning through gold to the duskiest rose, but each one singingly keen.
Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981
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The voice that came through the thin panel was a husky contralto, singingly accented-and how tired, how empty!
The Rebel Worlds Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1972
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But where have I seen it before, just such a cool calm blue over wan trees and hills that melt into sky, where else has the wind blown thus singingly and the river chimed like bells of glass?
Three Hearts and Three Lions Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1953
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Then he began to chant, or rather to declaim, singingly and rhythmically, to the accompaniment of the two lutes, his own hymn to
Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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Familiar or unfamiliar, all these works were at most performances singingly alive.
NYT > Home Page By ALASTAIR MACAULAY 2011
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the list goes on and on all simple all free all heart singingly mind sparklingly beautiful!
Archive 2009-04-01 faerian 2009
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the list goes on and on all simple all free all heart singingly mind sparklingly beautiful!
JOY in the simple things faerian 2009
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