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How to use quizzically in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word quizzically? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
He cocked his head quizzically and his tongue nervously lapped at his flews.
A tourniquet was on my upper arm, a blue squeezy ball tightly gripped in my hand, and a phlebotomist was looking quizzically at my arm.
On her knees, resting on her haunches on the bed, in imitation of his pose, she tilts her head and looks at him quizzically.
Selwyn looked at her quizzically, his head tipped to one side and his large ears pricked forward as he watched.
The old man at the centre of the crowd ran his fingers through his beard and looked at him quizzically.
He looked at me quizzically for a moment, but didn't ask any more questions.
He blinked at her quizzically a few times, and then looked back at his wound, and winced in pain.
Edella regards me quizzically, but I just stare right back at her with an equally confused expression.
I looked at him quizzically and ran over the list of people that were in my third grade class.
He turned and looked at me quizzically, wanting me to continue the thought.
They looked at him quizzically and then for a moment a flicker of compassion crossed the face of the chairman.
He has a habit, disconcerting at first, of turning his palm quizzically outward and staring off into the distance, as if silently interrogating an unseen, all-knowing source.
Above him the huge form peered down at him and regarded him quizzically.
She looks at me quizzically for a moment before realising who I am.
He looked up quizzically from the couch where he was watching the news.
It was these early essays, carefully wrought, quizzically meditative in tone, and unusual in sensibility, that first drew attention to Stevenson as a writer.
She looked at me quizzically, and, with equal confusion, I shrugged.
We get that here, too, as we do in the prayerful handclasp of Bert Lahr, photographed in 1956, or in a shot of Bacon himself, fingers resting quizzically at the rim of his mouth.
Suddenly she turns and looks at me quizzically.
Examples from Classical Literature
The ferryman took his pipe from his mouth 86 and regarded the party quizzically.
He spoke with a doubtful pretense of timidity, and looked at her quizzically.
Eerily it tripped and chimed and lilted to its close, and the Maestro swung about and faced them, smiling still, quizzically.
So, he avoided her eyes as she stood by the window regarding him quizzically.
As the two men returned down the path to their boat, Sheldon regarded Joan quizzically.
Death by Roses is a quizzically romantic comedy about love that transcends life and death.
Returning to the veranda he eyed Wade and Bronner quizzically.
Under the lamps of the alameda McKildrick regarded him quizzically.
Hawk Kennedy closed one eye and squinted the other at Peter quizzically.
He was looking at her quizzically, but with the liveliest appreciation.
Philip flushed at the mention of her name, and Lawson looked at him quizzically.
Miss carrington looked at Macloud, quizzically, but made no comment.
The colonel was about to reply when a new thought appeared to occur to him and he looked quizzically at the ape-man.
When they were again alone D'Arnot looked quizzically at Tarzan.
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