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Sentence Examples Sometimes in summer she would sit on the kitchen step, barefoot, running her toes absent-mindedly in the dust, losing herself in a book. You nod absent-mindedly, hoping she will go pester someone else so you can sample the hors d' oeuvres in peace. Eva sat at her vanity table, brushing her long dark hair, absent-mindedly, thinking of other things. Not really thinking clearly, I absent-mindedly skimmed the bookshelf with my eyes, not looking at or for anything. Kishi walked out of the classroom, absent-mindedly waving and mumbling a greeting to those who called to her. I sipped a coffee, my favourite blend, and doodled absent-mindedly on my notepad. With her right hand she doodled absent-mindedly on the edge of her mother's precious newspaper. I picked my pen up and began to draw her, absent-mindedly doodling in the margins of the paper. He sighed, his eyes downcast as he continued to walk absent-mindedly across the path. Short, mournful melodies emerge, like foghorns singing to themselves absent-mindedly. For the rest of the class she stared absent-mindedly at the clock, lost in a daydream. He has an almost gnomish manner, an unkempt beard that he scratches at absent-mindedly and a tumble of curly black hair that bobs as he talks. He had his right hand to his face and was absent-mindedly rubbing the scar on his left cheekbone. He finished crunching up his toast and absent-mindedly washed the plate up, putting it back in the cupboard with the others. She rubbed, absent-mindedly at the welt of a scar on her thigh, covered and concealed by tights and a dress. He looked for all the world like an art critic absent-mindedly contemplating a particularly engrossing landscape. Is the original line really so obscure that some lamebrain who has absent-mindedly wandered in off the street going to have difficulty with it? He let his two companions look for a moment longer before walking on down a roughly paved street, Cale and Sam following absent-mindedly. It's in the way she wears her sleeves over her hands and the way she absent-mindedly scrapes her hair back into a ponytail. She absent-mindedly turned the sheet over, and started sketching a half scale drawing of Eric's face from memory. Show More Sentences The first one can be absent-mindedly tossed on the floor, then you can stick one in that Ming vase and another in the flower pot. He moved back close to me and started stroking my trousered thigh up and down, up and down, gently, absent-mindedly. Anna reached up and absent-mindedly twirled her finger around one of her golden curls. I nodded and took a sip of my water, absent-mindedly sloshing the liquid around in my glass. With a gleeful smile, she began to play absent-mindedly with a strand of her mouse brown hair that had strayed free of its bun. She undressed quickly and absent-mindedly, stuffing her grimy clothes into the washer-dryer. She absent-mindedly made a neat pile of the scattered magazines on the coffee table. Marzipan still wore the light vermillion dress she had worn to the day's gathering and was absent-mindedly picking at the satin material. The prophetess smoothed the front of her skirt, absent-mindedly removing a tiny speck of dust. Her black eyes were unfocused, her other hand absent-mindedly fondling the pocketed switchblade. With an exasperated sigh, she stood and sat by the fire, poking the embers absent-mindedly with a stick. He eventually figures out the code when he absent-mindedly reads the general's doodling on a pad. It is run by an ex-army martinet absurdly out of touch and absent-mindedly rooting about in irrelevances. Her defence was that she had no intention of stealing but had absent-mindedly placed the items in her shopping basket. Kel absent-mindedly chewed on the end of her pencil as she let her teacher's monotonous voice rolled over her. The slopes of the walls fit easily to our backs, and we sipped water and ate granola, fingering the powder absent-mindedly. We spend far more time listening to television, often absent-mindedly, while were busy with something else. He begins caressing her legs, from the knees to the ankles, absent-mindedly. He used to scribble musical notes all over the laboratory walls, absent-mindedly, while conducting his experiments. Rose was sitting quietly, absent-mindedly drawing her picture with thick, dark slashes of her pencil. Show More Sentences He dug up a cockle, absent-mindedly, with his toes. Murray had absent-mindedly gone to the wrong one. It sounded exactly like a bear absent-mindedly speedbagging on an exposed nerve ending. The buttons were absent-mindedly fastened, another tie was selected and it was only when he tried to tie the second knot that he realized he was doubly clad to meet the high temperatures of an early spring day. Three men, one absent-mindedly delousing a child in his lap, sat on the remains of a boat and, glassy-eyed, surveyed the destruction. While waiting for the bread to toast, I absent-mindedly looked at the list of its ingredients and was flabbergasted to realize that it contained? sugar. She spoke calmly, absent-mindedly adjusting her mother's bedclothes. Yashi absent-mindedly picked up the squeezy bottle of syrup, flipped open the cap, and began piping spiral patterns round the outside of the plate with it. He absent-mindedly twirled a lock of crimson hair around his finger. She had several ropes of long black beads around her neck which she absent-mindedly played with in her hand, and her thin hair was done up in an elaborate style. Slumped together on the sofa like the Gogglebox families, commenting on whatever channel you've absent-mindedly tuned into? My aunt, who had once felt miserably guilty for absent-mindedly taking a cup of Bovril on a meatless Friday, could relax. I sighed, absent-mindedly twirling a lock of hair around a finger. It was paradise until one fateful day when I was absent-mindedly mixing up a new concoction. He absent-mindedly starts humming the old cartoon theme. The filibuster has been around in one form or another since 1806, when the Senate absent-mindedly neglected to readopt a rule allowing a simple majority to move the previous question. It is easy to recognise, on the left of the scene, the reaper Casimir Dehan, sitting absent-mindedly or resignedly on the bench, after the work is done. A pretty maidservant is absent-mindedly dusting with a feather duster. Sometimes as a visitor, I absent-mindedly reach down to pluck out a weed. Examples from Classical Literature He had absent-mindedly strayed into the wrong continent and the wrong creed. She was listening to him absent-mindedly and looking about her, her fan laid to her lips. Daylight hefted it absent-mindedly, and, still absent-mindedly, untied the strings and ran some of the gold-dust out on his palm. When he had taken it down the day before he had folded it in four, absent-mindedly, before dropping it on the table. Raskolnikov at once pretended not to have seen him, but to be looking absent-mindedly away, while he watched him out of the corner of his eye. She held out her hand to him in a friendly way, but absent-mindedly. I always think that checked patterns have the feel of something that has been doodled, perhaps absent-mindedly while someone is on the phone. She came and sat beside me on the river-balcony, and talked a little, desultorily and absent-mindedly. Dear Alex, I PICKED up my boyfriend's smartphone to use the web browser and absent-mindedly started playing with his Facebook app. She played absent-mindedly, her fingers skipping and skirling on the notes. Miss Georgie laughed ruefully, and patted her pompadour absent-mindedly. He would have swum to shore with merely a feeling of amused self-reproach akin to that of the man who absent-mindedly walks into a lamp-post in the street. Miss Keller talks to herself absent-mindedly in the manual alphabet. If he can draw, he will draw absent-mindedly on blotting paper. Find more words! 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