pensive

Example Sentences

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The assistant searched for herself in one of the pictures, then scanned the faces, pensive.

From Barron's • Mar. 3, 2026

More recent interpreters underline the song’s vast reach, from Harolyn Blackwell’s operatic radiance and Norah Jones’s hushed Tanglewood version to Kenny Barron’s pensive piano meditation and Willie Nelson’s weathered country croon.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

On Thorns, the pensive opening song of The Clearing, she even berates herself for "making a song and dance" about the break-up that inspired Wolf Alice's previous album, Blue Weekend.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2025

“Flashing fish, lavish lily, megalomaniacal mosquito, pensive poet,” goes his thinking.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

Aziza had turned into a calm, pensive litde girl, with a demeanor that to Laila seemed beyond her six years.

From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini