abstractedly
Example Sentences
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Many mourners ponder, even if only abstractedly, their reason for living.
From Scientific American • Jun. 7, 2011
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
On the opening program, for example, Wagner, whose cover job is schoolteaching, delivered homilies on peace and cooperation while abstractedly tearing a telephone book in half.
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
Bigger went to the window and stood looking out abstractedly into the street.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
Vocabulary lists containing abstractedly
