adverb
definition
In a cautious manner.
Examples of cautiously in a Sentence
She peered cautiously over the edge, but couldn't see the car.
They cautiously crept around the dune.
She saw nothing and stepped cautiously into the hallway, looking both ways.
He saw nothing, and the others cautiously emerged.
Cautiously her fingers felt the ground around her and touched the cold steel barrel.
Natasha opened it cautiously and glanced into the room, Sonya standing beside her at the half-open door.
They cautiously crept forward.
I crept cautiously forward until I encountered a closed door, leading, I presumed, to the main house.
Damian was cautiously entertained while the corner of Dusty's lips curved up.
The governments cautiously took advantage of the national movement to strengthen their position.
Two more of his men moved cautiously from the forest, looking for Elise or Dan to appear.
Cautiously, I stepped outside the motel room door, closing it behind me.
For the next week she cautiously accepted his occasional displays of affection.
Natasha rose slowly and carefully, crossed herself, and stepped cautiously on the cold and dirty floor with her slim, supple, bare feet.
He thought she'd walk away, but instead, she cautiously lifted the rope, turned further away from the precipice and took baby steps backwards toward him.
Gerasim looked cautiously into the study several times and saw Pierre always sitting in the same attitude.
Stepping cautiously from one foot to the other she ran like a kitten the few steps to the door and grasped the cold door handle.
Not one of the threesome had a desire to enter the mine via this newfound entrance, but each cautiously examined the portal.
Toting the weed whip, she cautiously approached the edge of the woods.
The Dawkinses, back to being cautiously nice to each other, were dressed for business—another necktie and nylons day, according to Paulette—scheduled for a group visit to their attorney and a realtor.
Returning to their vehicle, they cautiously left the roadway on the newly discovered track.
In the English process the bars are heated cautiously on an inclined hearth, when relatively pure tin runs off, while a skeleton of impure metal remains.
One of the visitors, usually spoken of as "a man of great merit," having described how he had that day seen Kutuzov, the newly chosen chief of the Petersburg militia, presiding over the enrollment of recruits at the Treasury, cautiously ventured to suggest that Kutuzov would be the man to satisfy all requirements.
She moved cautiously through the well-maintained orchard, back to the tree marked by the rocks.
The bark on each side of the perpendicular slit being then cautiously opened, as at b, with the handle of the knife, the bud and shield are inserted as shown at c. The upper tip of the shield is cut off horizontally, and brought to fit the bark of the stock at the transverse incision.
However, in responding cautiously to French and german expansionism in the Pacific, he alienated and infuriated the Australian colonists.
This proposal, which commended itself to Albert, had already been discussed by some of his relatives; but it was necessary to proceed cautiously, and he assured Pope Adrian VI.
When dropped very cautiously into cold water it dissolves into a clear solution.
The cold during the night of the 29th of January was most severe; and early in the morning of the 30th the Swedish king gave the order to start, the horsemen dismounting where the ice was weakest, and cautiously leading their horses as far apart as possible, when they swung into their saddles again, closed their ranks and made a dash for the shore.
In the twilight it moves about cautiously and as noiselessly as a rat, to which, indeed, at this time it bears some outward resemblance.
Meanwhile the country slowly developed in parts and opened out cautiously to European influences.
This might have been so, if he had continued to rule as cautiously as during the time when he was nursing his scheme of revenge.
Carmen cautiously walked around it, carrying Destiny.
About two hundred yards away a lone wolf stood poised for flight, watching them cautiously.
The beaker also is cautiously filled with acidulated water up to a point beyond the edge of the platinum basin.
Aurous oxide, Au 2 0, is obtained by cautiously adding potash to a solution of aurous bromide, or by boiling mixed solutions of auric chloride and mercurous nitrate.
Greene, cautiously avoiding another Camden, retreated with his forces intact.
Down to the 3rd century it is proved by the contemporary Graeco-Roman annals to be utterly untrustworthy - but even for the times of Armenian Christianity it must be used far more cautiously than has been done, for example, by Gibbon.
Shore would have proceeded more cautiously than Cornwallis's preconceived idea of a proprietary body and the court of directors' haste after fixity permitted.
While the others moved cautiously to the bridge, enthralled by the scene in both directions, Edith refused to budge any further.
These results should be treated cautiously as the data does not allow for conclusions to be made regarding causality.
Maria cautiously leads Liz and Simon into what appears to be a girls ' dormitory.
From the carriages emerged men wearing uniforms, stars, and ribbons, while ladies in satin and ermine cautiously descended the carriage steps which were let down for them with a clatter, and then walked hurriedly and noiselessly over the baize at the entrance.
Cautiously withdrawing her breast, Natasha rocked him a little, handed him to the nurse, and went with rapid steps toward the door.
Vitamin supplements should be used cautiously, however.
YouTube is an option that couples can approach cautiously.
After you have done this cautiously leave the building you're in.
A curly blond head peeked around the corner and large blue eyes studied the stranger cautiously.
Alex glanced out the office door cautiously.
She made her way through the common areas to the dorms and cautiously opened the door to the room that had been hers.