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Intently in sentence

85 examples of Intently in a sentence

When we think about learning, we often picture students in a classroom or lecture hall, books open on their desks, listening intently to a teacher or professor in the front of the room.
When she performs sacrifices, she focuses intently on the task.
When it came down to it, we did out best to listen to each other intently.
Her onyx eyes eventually turned the most stunning Lake Tahoe blue, and she loved using them to gaze intently into other people's eyes.
I watched this scene intently as Matthew asked Nimi over and over to "say my name", realizing that up until that moment, they always called each other by their last names.
I have not seen this movie in ages but figured I'd comment on it anyway, mostly because the memory of disliking it so intently is burned into my memory cells.
Within the last 5 minutes of this film, you must focus intently on what's happening.
the entire first two acts of the film are great, setting up a tense situation where the viewer is intently waiting to see the dramatic climax.
The film's movement kept me intently watching and guessing.
Throughout, I was intently searching for clues and trying to help the hapless man make sense of his out-of-kilter world.
With the TPP close to being finalized, South Korea and China are watching intently, and other countries may want to join.
The more intently Fed governors focus on their core responsibilities, the more inclined politicians will be to respect their independence.
The urgent task facing US President Barack Obama is to move American strategy away from the current cul de sac in which it is now stuck towards one that maintains a balance between its own national interests, and those of India, Pakistan, and a China that is looking on intently.
But I am certain that the more intently outsiders invest in Palestinian civil society on its own terms, the less exasperated the Palestinian intelligentsia – and the Muslim world – will become with the often-coerced terms of Palestine's creativity.
For two years, I, like many Americans, have been focused intently on documenting, exposing, and alerting the nation to the Bush administration’s criminality and its assault on the Constitution and the rule of law – a story often marginalized at home.
With the world focused so intently on advancing disarmament goals, the CD should seize the moment.
Moscow’s academic economists listen intently to the Forum each year, hoping to hear something radical, or even a little defiant, though they themselves are unwilling to mount a challenge.
The dying man lay with closed eyes, but at intervals the muscles of his forehead worked as if he were thinking deeply and intently.
And have you had any shooting this year?'Levin asked, gazing intently at this leg but with that pretended politeness of his which Kitty knew so well, and which suited him so ill.
They intently followed the ball sent to them, neither hurrying nor hesitating, ran toward it with agility, waited for it to bounce, and then striking it with the racket sent it back across the net with good aim and precision.
'For you it's a matter of obstinacy,' she said, after gazing intently at him and suddenly finding a name for that look that irritated her so.
She looked pale and stern, and as resolute as before though her jaw trembled a little and her eyes were fixed intently on Kitty.
Looking intently at his face and hands, she remembered their reconciliation the day before and his passionate caresses in all their details.
She stood silent in the middle of the room, looking at him intently.
'Yes, I must clear it up and understand it,' he thought, gazing intently at the untrodden grass before him, and following the movements of a green insect that was crawling up a stalk of couch grass and was hindered in its ascent by a leaf of goutwort.
Ned Land stared at me still more intently and finally unpursed his lips:"We'll do it this evening," he said.
"To each his own," the captain replied, staring intently at Ned Land.
They sat on three chairs in the punt, and watched intently their lines.
Mr. Wharton had listened intently to each speaker, in succession, and had so far lost the affectation of indifference, as to be crushing in his hand the pieces of china on which he had expended so much labor in endeavoring to mend it; when, observing the peddler tying the last knot in his pack, he asked abruptly,"Are we about to be disturbed again with the enemy?""Who do you call the enemy?" said the peddler, raising himself erect, and giving the other a look, before which the eyes of Mr. Wharton sank in instant confusion.
His roving eye, however, soon caught a glimpse of these new objects in the view, and he sprang up with alacrity, gazing intently towards the water.
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