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Use "wistfully" in a sentence
""Aunt Polly, please," she called wistfully, "isn't there any way you can be glad about all that -- duty business?""
""Aunt Polly, please," she called wistfully, "isn't there ANY way you can be glad about all that -- duty business?""
""It will cost a great deal," she said, looking wistfully from the yard into the crowded street, with its flaring lamps and the hoarse cries that came from it."