pensively in English

adverb

['pensɪvlɪ]

thoughtfully, musingly, meditatively

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1. 2 Alice gazed pensively through the wet glass.

2. 5 Garton pensively stirred the hotchpotch of his hair.

3. 6 Pensively he stared at the painting.

4. 3 He gazed pensively out of the window.

5. 1 Angela stared pensively out of the window.

6. Garton pensively stirred the hotchpotch of his hair.

7. 4 He gazed pensively at the glass in front of him, lost in thought.

8. Top synonyms for Contemplatively (other words for Contemplatively) are pensively, grimly and wistfully.

9. 8 Then he said pensively,[www.Sentencedict.com] Look - he's charging towards his goal again.

10. Synonyms for Contemplatively include seriously, solemnly, earnestly, gravely, soberly, thoughtfully, dourly, grimly, pensively and sombrely

11. 7 She draws pensively on a Chesterfield Light and takes a sip of her caf é noisette.

12. 9 " Oh, me,'said Carrie, pensively. " I wish I could live in such a place. "

13. There was the jade-green cockatoo on his orange perch, gazing pensively down the street.

14. 10 There was the jade-green cockatoo on his orange perch, gazing pensively down the street.

15. Whilst he was pensively meandering in a garden it came into his thought that the power of gravity (which brought an apple from a tree to the ground) was not limited to a certain distance from earth, but that this power must extend much further than was usually thought.