fretfully

IPA: frˈɛtfʌɫi

Examples of "fretfully" in Sentences

"See how you worry sister!" for Lucy was calling fretfully,
Mrs. Martin was out of bed, calling fretfully into the passage for Dilman.
At that moment Banford’s voice was heard calling fretfully, crossly from upstairs.
"I call fretfully as my baby birds, sunblocked and behatted flit off down the street.
While she was singing, the sick boy had lain motionless; but now he began to nestle, and called fretfully, "Water!
"If it don't rain soon," she called fretfully, "I guess you'll find yourselves alone an 'forsaken, like pelicans in the wilderness.
He spent his days staring at a mindless stream of numbers running down his computer screen and his nights tossing fretfully in the guest bed.
There are few places to turn around on the twisting road, and so you continue, fretfully, until finally the road begins to descend and you spy some white buildings in a bend up ahead.
While I don't doubt that every effort will be made by profit-driven corporations to develop ways to produce goods even if rare minerals are fully depleted, the gulf between now and a future where minerals can be safely reclaimed and reused is fretfully wide.