DOUBTFUL in a Sentence
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315 example sentences for DOUBTFUL, such as:
1. I doubted whether the story is true.
2. But with a doubtful glance at Rachael.
3. I am doubtful whether she is still alive.
4. Prospects for a lasting peace remain doubtful.
5. With doubtful glimmer lights the dreary forest.
2. But with a doubtful glance at Rachael.
3. I am doubtful whether she is still alive.
4. Prospects for a lasting peace remain doubtful.
5. With doubtful glimmer lights the dreary forest.
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Meanings and Examples of DOUBTFUL
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doubtful
a. open to doubt or suspicion
a. fraught with uncertainty or doubt
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 This morbid meddling of conscience with an immaterial matter betokened, it is to be feared, no genuine and steadfast penitence, but something doubtful, something that might be deeply wrong beneath.
2 But Pearl's laugh, when she was caught, though full of merriment and music, made her mother more doubtful than before.
3 It was certainly a doubtful charm, imparting a hard, metallic lustre to the child's character.
4 Nay, the longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard; and sometimes, for a few painful minutes, she believed it to be no more than friendship.
5 I was so doubtful of myself now, and put so much trust in him, that I could not satisfy myself whether I ought to refer to it when he did not.
6 For some time, I am doubtful of Miss Shepherd's feelings, but, at length, Fate being propitious, we meet at the dancing-school.
7 I am doubtful whether I was at heart glad or sorry, when my school-days drew to an end, and the time came for my leaving Doctor Strong's.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 19. I LOOK ABOUT ME, AND MAKE A DISCOVERY
8 He had been doubtful at first whether to take Littimer or not, but decided to leave him at home.
9 To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position.
10 She looked at him hastily, and for the first time, as if she were doubtful of what he had said.
11 But general propositions as to feeding on meal and on grass were doubtful and obscure.
12 Levin followed him, more and more doubtful whether he was doing right or wrong.
13 Not with the brightness natural to cheerful youth, but with uncertain, eager, doubtful flashes, which had something painful in them, analogous to the changes on a blind face groping its way.
14 But with a doubtful glance at Rachael.
15 With doubtful glimmer lights the dreary forest.
Example Sentence: (105 in 8 pages)
1 Ecologists argue that the benefits of treating sewage with disinfectants are doubtful.
2 It is doubtful whether the patient will last out this month.
3 I am doubtful whether she is still alive.
4 It is doubtful whether this research is of any benefit to mankind.
5 She was doubtful about the interview from the off.
6 For a time it seemed doubtful that he would move at all.
7 Prospects for a lasting peace remain doubtful.
8 Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on her face like the three gardeners.
9 The gale still rising, seemed to my ear to muffle a mournful under-sound; whether in the house or abroad I could not at first tell, but it recurred, doubtful yet doleful at every lull; at last I made out it must be some dog howling at a distance.
10 Alice was rather doubtful whether she ought not to lie down on her face like the three gardeners, but she could not remember ever having heard of such a rule at processions.
11 She was doubtful whether to lie down on her face, she couldn't remember ever having heard of such a rule.
12 I doubted whether the story is true.
13 I never doubted you; I was sure you would bring me the money.
14 No one directly involved with the case doubted him.
15 The doctor doubted whether the patient would live through that month.