inattentively

Example Sentences

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“Drivers cannot be inattentively attentive,” they wrote online in September.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2018

“We tend to cover it poorly, fitfully, inattentively, in a fragmented and sporadic fashion, and usually when the news is always bad.”

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2014

Parents with children strapped to their backs wander inattentively between their seats and the concession stalls, and others chatter among friends as if they were watching a baseball game at neighboring Safeco Field.

From New York Times • Jul. 15, 2011

Aspects of his art that we glide over inattentively today seemed threatening to his audience.

From Time Magazine Archive

I sketched inattentively along the margins of my homework.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer