How To Use Abstractedly In A Sentence
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‘OK Timmy, go show your sister,’ Mrs. Davison said abstractedly, putting a hand on Timmy's shoulder and pushing him gently into the living room.
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As he read, he abstractedly ran his fingers, with a caressing movement, through his hair.
Chapter 31
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These last may be termed abstractedly and simply friends, the former as
Ethics
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His matter quite apart -- and it is always interesting -- and abstractedly from his pervasive pleasantry, which is always original, it is a wonder that he is not more esteemed than he is in an age which professes to set store by style.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
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'Well, you will allow me to say this, since I say it without reference to your personality or to mine -- that the Power and De Stancy families are the complements to each other; and that, abstractedly, they call earnestly to one another: "How neat and fit a thing for us to join hands!"'
A Laodicean : a Story of To-day
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Belden abstractedly began to light his pipe, which had failed to go out, and then brightened up with, "How 'bout yerself, stranger, — married man?
To The Man on the Trail
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Regan gazed abstractedly up at the ceiling, puffing away at his cigar.
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In the title sequence, a woman who's neither young nor truly old gyrates mysteriously and abstractedly in the middle of a wheat field.
'Green Zone': Thrills Vie With Speechifying
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She was perhaps only a little less irritating than the man who became so unconscious in the habit of inattention that on one occasion his converser had scarcely finished when he began abstractedly: "Yes, very odd, very odd," and told the identical anecdote all over again.
Conversation What to Say and How to Say it
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Mattie grunted abstractedly, totally engrossed in peering at the various plastic containers and bowls in the refrigerator.
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When the freedman had ceased speaking, Vetranio sat up on the couch, called for a basin of water, dipped his fingers in the refreshing liquid, dried them abstractedly on the long silky curls of the singing-boy who stood beside him, gazed about him once more, repeated interrogatively the word 'daybreak', and sunk gently back upon his couch.
Antonina
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Mrs. Rossitur took up the magazine again abstractedly, and read –
Queechy
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And from the business point of view it is just merely wrong to abstractedly speculate that someone wants something.
Russia's Sechin Defends Investment Climate
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Suffused with a post-Romantic melancholy, it seems to wander abstractedly through a softly glowing mist.
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Abstractedly she watched the dancers for a few moments, commenting murmurously as a couple eddied near.
The Beautiful and Damned
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Abstractedly she listens as her daughter, standing up straight in an onrush of light at the open kitchen door, talks to a deliveryman.
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While everyone else engages in some form of inward or outward dialogue, they stare abstractedly into space, oblivious to their surroundings.
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As Nelson abstractedly went over some of the myriad of reports that covered his desk, the intercom on his desk interrupted him.
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Apocalypse, holiness and filthiness would not be spoken of abstractedly, that is, apart from holy and _filthy_ persons, and in like manner righteousness and unrighteousness would not be mentioned apart from their necessary {117} antecedents, _personal_ righteous and unrighteous _deeds_.
An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality
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One evening when he was thus standing in the garden, abstractedly spudding up a weed with his stick, a bony figure turned the corner of the house and came up to him.
The Return of the Native
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Was he?" said Cadfael abstractedly, pounding herbs in a mortar for a linctus.
The Holy Thief
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She pronounced the name abstractedly, for she was surprised at the admission.
The Trail to Yesterday
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He is looking up abstractedly into the middle distance with a slightly suppressed smile.
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He nodded abstractedly, went upstairs to the big, sunny sewing room, searched the family needlecase for a long stiff darning needle and extracted several rubber bands from the red cardboard box on the library table.
A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life
