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Sentence Examples It had a large garden, she noted absently, with weeping willows and cherry trees. On a normal day, he would have absently placed his jacket on the naked hook attached to the door just below the peephole. Rebecca instantly colored, and raised a hand to rub absently at her cheeks, drawing all the more attention to the fact that she was embarrassed. Gareth was holding my hands, absently brushing his thumbs back and forth like he always does. She was absently chewing her bottom lip and her eyes stared blankly into space. Daniel ran a hand through his hair and stared at the cedar desk, absently tracing a knot in the wood with his finger. The thief absently watched the flames flaring around her, hearing her own harsh breathing echo around her over the crackle of the flames. Then I went back to the clearing, where Solastian was absently poking at the fire and completely oblivious to everything else. He took a long draught of his beer, wiping foam from his mouth, as he absently eavesdropped on other people's conversations. She absently stroked the horse's silky forelock but an insistent whinny reminded her of Hope. She crumpled up the paper she'd been absently doodling on and threw it into the wastebasket. Eva's cuddling up against Jared as he absently puts his arm around her waist. Releasing a breath of relief, Rachel absently accepted Lucy's urge to move forward. He set his goblet on the table between them, fingers lingering to absently trace the gilding. The Italians stared fixedly at the set, absently downing the panini and Asti that had been intended for prospective buyers. She absently tapped her artistry pencil on the sketch paper as she stared out onto the whitened garden with unseeing eyes. He kicked it absently as he made his way to the entrance, his arms folded over his torso, his teeth chattering from the biting cold. Gray eyes inscrutable, he examined the weapon, running a finger over a scuff on the muzzle absently. She no longer seemed aware of her surroundings as she chewed absently on a nail as she sat deep in thought. She sighed and let her hands rest on her lap, her fingers absently playing with a loose thread of cotton. Show More Sentences She had sunk down to lie on the grass and was absently playing with a bloom of meadowsweet. He picked absently at his jagged canine with a long thumbnail, watching his guard with feigned interest. I blew a mist out into the air and absently thought of the chances for it to snow when I thought I saw a flicker of movement to my side. I stare absently at the pattern of the fabric on the seats, an angular blur of red, grey and blue. Almost absently, his attention focused on his quarry, placing the glass on the table he stood, and made his way toward her. Then he stops short and mulls it over, fingers toying absently with the spoon in his teacup. She thought it over as she toyed absently with a lock of hair behind one ear. He was toying absently with a leaf that he had picked up, which made me wonder about what he was thinking. He sat up and looked at her, absently tapping the edge of the piano keys without making a sound. For a moment we just stood there, holding each other, his head against my chest as I toyed absently with his hair. The loud music blaring from her room brought Kyle out of his thoughtful trance, and he looked up absently. He was so sexy, I thought absently as I shoved my six inch book into my old blue locker. The days were warm and comfortable, he thought absently, but the nights were just this side of bitterly cold. Bored, Emily props her chin up with right hand, absently twirling her hair with the left. Lexa frowned thoughtfully, absently twirling a few strands of dark brown hair between her fingers as she walked. Ian shifted his weight to the other leg and absently blew at his bangs again without uncrossing his arms. Kellie absently curled and uncurled a strand of her hair on her finger, something she did when she was nervous or thinking. I nodded absently, still humming the song as I thought about the dilemma that was rather rapidly snowballing. I stared out at the drifting snowflakes absently, sitting at the counter with Connor in actual peace. His fingers started absently tracing patterns in the wood grain on the bar. Show More Sentences He tried to sit up, plucking absently at the loose blue and white striped nightshirt, rubbing at an eye as he looked round the room. Joey stared at it absently, taking an exaggerated interest in the papers spewing out. Mike holds out his wrist, and Martina absently buttons his loose shirt cuff. Curzon sat in his room, absently stirring a cauldron with a long metal spoon. He thanked me absently, capped his pen, and we all walked out into the quiet night, substantially calmer than last week. She absently smacked her chewing gum and wound it around her finger as she talked. Alanna begins to stroke Kugarine absently, as she rubbed against Alanna's side, chittering gently. Leya nodded absently, staring at the photographs, her lips quirking into a smirk. She wondered absently how a man who was not very tall in stature could carry something so heavy, then remembered his corded muscles and wiry strength. I absently waved with a smile and continued to stare at my schedule. As he approached the towers a salty breeze whipped against his skin, A few birds circled overhead, wheeling absently in fatigue above the barren lands. Juniper whiled many a day away in her sitting room, speaking to none, playing absently with the pale rose petals, as soft as the skin of a newborn's cheek. She absently twirled noodles for about ten minutes as Dave scarfed his. I clambered over to him and rested my head on his chest, silently listening to the soft rhythmic beating of his heart as he absently ran his hand through my hair. The knife in my hands slipped when the wagon hit a rut, nicking a rogue gouge from the piece of wood I was absently whittling down to a toothpick. Her fingers toyed absently with the handle of the mug of ale before her. Kyle stood in the park, absently throwing a basketball at the hoop. The sound of DVD cases clacking together brought her back to the video store and she looked toward the sound to see Blake absently flipping through DVDs in a drawer. Drawing the covers up with a fumbling hand, he draped his arm around the other person in the bed, absently kissing Jane's shoulder as she began to stir. Brandon was absently playing with a strand of Chasity's hair, wrapping it around his finger, tucking it behind her ear and interlacing it between his fingers. Show More Sentences He stared up at the ceiling and groped absently at the conveyor belt. She gazed absently at her fingernails, pushing down the cuticles and digging out small pieces of dirt that had become lodged between the nail and skin. I watched her absently walk over to the clock and punch out. I picked up a pen and started doodling absently on notebook paper. While we were talking, one of the chows, the rusty one, had come over to me and I was absently petting him. Examples from Classical Literature She replaced it on its square so absently, while she looked at Reynold, that it fell. She was snipping coreopsis for the dinner table, but she did it absently, and Jerome noted the heaviness of her eyes. Much later, as they neared Riverview, Penny absently switched on the shortwave radio. He came out upon the road slowly and stopped there, switching his legs absently with the stalk of a horseweed. She answered while still keeping her eyes absently on spica's white effulgence. He hesitated, biting his lip and plucking absently the tangles from the forelock of his horse. He shifted from one foot to the other and absently ate a warm cookie from the jarful at his hand. Charming Billy, fumbling the latigo absently, felt a sudden belligerence toward her father. She did not answer him, but absently twisted the fringe of his buckskins in her fingers. I absently poked it up with a paper-knife, and then found that it was a pawn-ticket from attenborough for 120 upon diamonds. He walked the floor absently, sometimes stopping by the balustrade to think. He absently took the whip from its socket, flecking the horse with it as he spoke. He bobbed his head, smiled absently and went back to his gleamy gadgets. He walked absently through the not-unpleasant routine of the shakedown. His interphone light flickered, and he touched the switch absently. Toni, pulling off her flannel blouse, spoke a trifle absently. Calhoun told her absently, as if he were thinking of something else. She sat, absently tapping the shelf with a nail file, and reflecting. Still stunned by Paton's reaction, he gazed absently at the floor. Farebrother's side, and looking rather absently at the insects ranged in fine gradation, with names subscribed in exquisite writing. Show More Sentences He was sitting at the table when I entered, and looked at me absently. Calhoun absently filled Murgatroyd's tiny cup and handed it to him. The secretary absently drew an arabesque on the blotting-pad. He looked absently at the sandwich, and bit a generous semicircle into it. She stood on the front veranda as he quitted the house, and absently picked a few sprays of jessamine that grew upon a trellis near by. Clive sat absently fidgeting with his glass, and Athalie watched him. Palla, combing out her hair, gazed absently into the mirror. He placed the sack absently in his pocket, still meditating other things. Miss Dyer spoke absently, glancing from the window in growing trouble. Miss Elenore was fondest of animals, though, she murmured, absently. One look about and he passed his hand over his forehead, absently. Walking west on Fifty-fourth Street, I looked up, absently, at a cold glow of glass, steel, and stone, and at first I didn't recognize what I saw. Desiree's eyes had been fixed absently and sadly upon the baby, while she was striving to penetrate the threatening mist that she felt closing about her. She turned her head aside, absently tying her watch-chain into a loop and untying it again, evidently thinking with the closest attention over what he had last said to her. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of absently? Words that rhyme with absently What is the adjective for absently? What is the noun for absently? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words absenting absentia absent from absentee voting absentees absenteeism absentminded absent-minded absentmindedly absent-mindedly absentmindedness absent-mindedness 8-letter Words Starting With a ab abs abse absen absent absentl