pensive
Example Sentences
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Pensive, melodic, uplifting, and heartrending – it's his best album yet.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2025
Pensive in tone, Teck raps about the importance of moving with intention and making peace with being betrayed.
From Washington Post • Sep. 23, 2020
Smith, wins the Belmont Stakes by one-half length over Pensive, the winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness.
From Washington Times • May 28, 2020
In the early sixties, in landscapes like “In the Dell” and “Lo, the Pensive Peninsula,” Saar was experimenting with drawing out the emotional potential of deserted nature through the highly tactile method of etching.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 24, 2019
Pensive, he bit at the inside of his thumb.
From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green
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