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UK
/mˈɛdɪtˌeɪtɪvli/
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ADVERB
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in a meditative manner
round and round, while meditatively, as a cow chewing the cud, he let his eyes rest on the flat water ahead of him
How To Use meditatively In A Sentence
- round and round, while meditatively, as a cow chewing the cud, he let his eyes rest on the flat water ahead of him
- The traveller champed meditatively at his steak.
- Tad sighed as Aubri went through the whole of his dry, impish, "absentminded" routine, first scratching his rusty-brown headfeathers meditatively (which made more dustmotes dance into the light), then staring up at the ceiling of the dwelling he shared with Judeth. The Silver Gryphon
- Meditatively I smoke a cigarette and sip a pale greenish liquor smelling strongly of aniseed, which isn't half so interesting as a commonplace whiskey and soda, but which, I am told, has the recommendation of being ten times as wicked. Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance
- Meditatively, Weinberg pulled out the waistband of his aquamarine sweatpants and lifted his unit in his left hand—he gasped, letting fall from his lips two lit cigarettes and thereby setting his tsimmes pan on fire. The Best American Erotica 2006
- Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the fancy of a double Dupin — the creative and the resolvent. The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- Meditatively I smoke a cigarette and sip a pale greenish liquor smelling strongly of aniseed, which is The Quest of the Golden Girl
- Seated on an up-turned bucket, drawing meditatively on his well-seasoned briarwood, he looked a perfect picture of content. A Pirate of Parts
- While Justine prepared herself for action, I sipped meditatively on a drink containing 17 different herbs and whatnots guaranteed to detoxify my system.
- Martin rubbed his chin meditatively.