abstractedly

Example Sentences

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Many mourners ponder, even if only abstractedly, their reason for living.

From Scientific American • Jun. 7, 2011

A creased, dirty raincoat is his unvarying costume; he wanders abstractedly, clutching a camera and a sackful of pointless documents.

From Time Magazine Archive

And occasionally Oates will let all his defenses collapse, as when GTO sits in a North Carolina roadside diner and abstractedly orders "champagne and caviar and chicken sandwiches on toast."

From Time Magazine Archive

Burly, hunched Ernst Reuter still sat in his center loge, his eyes bright, abstractedly beating time with nicotine-stained forefinger to some passage of the music that had died.

From Time Magazine Archive

When concentrating it was his practice to finger his watch-chain and rummage abstractedly in his watchpocket.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee