How To Use pensively In A Sentence
- If this was the UK, I would expect to be ushered to a table (probably grumbling inwardly about the empty tables I passed on the way), then, once seated, make a curt nod and "hullo" to my table mates before either engaging in quiet conversation with my companion or looking pensively out of the window, trying hard to look like I'm thinking of Very Important Things. Amtrak adventures
- Upon these interjections, placable flicks of the lionly tail addressed to Britannia the Ruler, who expected him in some mildish way to lash terga cauda in retiring, Sir Willoughby Patterne passed from a land of alien manners; and ever after he spoke of America respectfully and pensively, with a tail tucked in, as it were. The Egoist
- Although one of China's richest men,[sentence dictionary] he dresses inexpensively and lives in a modest Beijing apartment.
- Doctor Marchmont smiled, but rather pensively than rejoicingly; and Camilla
- The Reiksguard forms an elite core of highly trained, expensively-equipped troops who are loyal to the Emperor in person.
- I slap the tuna onto a cracker and pensively munch while examining the rest of the refrigerator.
- In the painting, a laureled boy-man sits on a red rock holding a palette and pensively gazing into the distance.
- She has done heaps of different courses in a range of areas but found that being able to sew stretchy fabrics meant she has been able to make clothes for the whole family quickly and inexpensively.
- Decorate your home inexpensively with loads of balloons and streamers.
- My client wishes to settle this matter quietly, inexpensively and expeditiously.
