pensively

Example Sentences

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Pulling up his laptop, Dallas shows off the art for a single: On a majestic winding Italian road, ian perches pensively on a white moped, in an all-white yacht outfit, barefoot.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 26, 2025

One of the animals raises her head over her enclosure and gazes pensively at me, her widely spaced eyes and odd, rectangular pupils seeking to make contact—and perhaps even connection.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

In a Joan Brown painting, a cat might sit pensively in the middle of a Kool-Aid-colored landscape and a woman with the body of a tiger might take the pose of an Ingres odalisque.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2022

"I can't explain how important this choir is to me. I have been a member for 46 years, " he said, before pausing and adding pensively, "but then I suppose it comes to us all".

From BBC • May 12, 2022

Amarante Cordova sat on the stump beside his doorway; Snuffy Ledoux stood several feet away pensively smoking as darkness fell.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols