inattentively

Example Sentences

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“Drivers cannot be inattentively attentive,” they wrote online in September.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

“We tend to cover it poorly, fitfully, inattentively, in a fragmented and sporadic fashion, and usually when the news is always bad.”

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2014

Parents with children strapped to their backs wander inattentively between their seats and the concession stalls, and others chatter among friends as if they were watching a baseball game at neighboring Safeco Field.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2011

Given the hectic schedule Brezhnev had set for himself, his dazed, almost blank look as he inattentively followed the departure ceremonies did not strike Soviets watching the evening news as unusual.

From Time Magazine Archive

I sketched inattentively along the margins of my homework.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer