desultory in English
a few people were left, dancing in a desultory fashion
Use "desultory" in a sentence
1. Our planning proceeded in a desultory fashion.
2. The desultory discussion merely reaffirmed old perplexities.
3. She made a desultory attempt at conversation.
4. Wilson and Gallagher play a desultory game of poker.
5. He wandered around, clearing up in a desultory way.
6. They talked briefly in a desultory manner.
7. I wandered about in a desultory fashion.
8. 18 She made a desultory attempt at conversation.
9. China's record of protecting its rare species has been desultory.
10. Carrie followed up this desultory conversation with occasional interruptions from the Vances.
11. Judith now entered into a desultory discourse with Deerslayer.
12. The constables made a desultory attempt to keep them away from the barn.
13. He broke into a desultory chat with me over his business affairs.
14. He wandered through derisive, if desultory, critique of Dick Cheney, then switched gears.
15. On a field below a dormitory a desultory soccer game was under way.
16. His conduct during these first weeks had been desultory beyond description.
17. She greets us in a desultory way, nothing at all like her usual greeting.
18. Do not let the discussion fragment into a desultory conversation with no clear direction.
19. The German assaulted on Russia also momentarily disrupted the desultory JapaneseAmerican talks.
20. He led his men back to Charleroi where a desultory musket fight was flickering across the river.
21. They'd talked, in a lazy, desultory fashion, about so many things that she'd lost track.
22. He answered a few questions in a desultory fashion, even, it seemed, a little grudgingly.
23. It perfectly caught the air of feebleness which has characterised months of desultory chatter.
24. 7 Do not let the discussion fragment into a desultory conversation with no clear direction.
25. The careful study of a few books is better than the desultory reading of many.
26. The persistence with which they fly down their victims is quite distinct from the desultory mutual robbery of immature gulls.
27. Conversation was desultory for we were all exhausted though Mandeville declared that tomorrow he would spread his net.
28. Corbett allowed their conversation to be as desultory as possible, wanting his companion to relax and feel safe in his presence.
29. The Russian Orthodox Church acted as a host to desultory discussions between representatives of the parliament and the president.
30. The desultory voices at the tables fell silent, heads were raised and, together, the company moved towards the windows.
31. The mistake then made was to re-establish the holding in Pearson, whose subsequent share price performance has been desultory.
32. War defied expectations and became even bigger when left to their own devices; Burdon, after recording an album with veteran bluesman Jimmy Witherspoon , cut a series of generally desultory solo albums.
33. Cooper has a gift for portraying the desultory, private conversations of lovers, as well as the nervous Attitudinizings of jealousy; and by the end of the novel we have come to …
34. The days went on, with plenty of what Shakespeare called Alarums and excursions in the neighbourhood of the great fort, the enemy being constantly making desultory attacks, but only to find Graves's boys and
35. ‘The stroll looks innocuously Aimless enough, random conversation and desultory gaits all firmly in place.’ ‘See, you may think this is just an Aimless ramble, but in fact it's all carefully thought out and planned right down to the last semi-colon.’
36. The AHA has issued a statement Condemning the report from “The President’s Advisory 1776 Commission.” “Written hastily in one month after two desultory and tendentious ‘hearings,’” the AHA writes, “without any consultation with professional historians of the United States, the report fails to engage a rich and vibrant body of scholarship that has evolved over the last seven
37. The same held true for the expeditions to Ceram in 1904 and to Bali in 1906: in the former, intertribal Alfurese wars had been met with desultory military and administrative measures, until Van Heutsz decided upon definite military action for prestige reasons.(80) In Bali, royal contempt for official damage claims in connection with the looting