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"absently" Definitions
  1. in a way that shows you are not looking at or thinking about what is happening around you

49 Sentences With "absently"

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President Bill Clinton absently toyed with his old campaign buttons.
"In this town, everyone knows each other," she said absently.
"You guys seen Lace?" he somewhat absently asks his herd of hopefuls.
Jamie absently lifted a leg to let Sara sit back down beside him.
She smiled absently at her friends, then sidled over to where I stood.
He absently strokes the puckered nub of flesh where one leg abruptly ends.
He absently stroked his goatee, as the club's lights flashed off his skin.
"I was a little scared to get involved," he said, biting his nails absently.
She imagines she sees her rapist everywhere — at the supermarket absently squeezing the hot dog buns.
He saw her looking now and smiled absently, reaching out to stroke her jaw with one finger.
Fassi, the reigning N.C.A.A. Division I women's champion, absently twirled her ponytail as she surveyed her options.
I found myself absently spinning it when working on my computer, which unintentionally sent me careening through Chrome tabs.
And you especially don't when your preferred coping mechanisms are booze, pills, and stumbling absently on the fringes of responsibility.
Between the swings and jungle gym, he's bitten by a mosquito and absently scratches his arm before running off to play.
Aides spotted him absently moving things around on his desk or playing with old campaign buttons he kept in the hallway.
"That's terrible," I replied absently, registering the news like any natural disaster befalling others — sad, scary, and unlikely to disrupt my day.
Ms. R. was a middle-age woman with close-cropped hair and scarlet fingernails that flipped absently through the cards of her Rolodex.
This helps you avoid the pernicious behavior of finishing a task and then absently clicking on an app next to the one you just used.
You can almost feel him melding into his lounge chair as he absently watches Fox News, lusts for a neighbor's wife and gorges on Doritos.
I start by searching "black people" in the library's inventory portal, chewing on the inside of my left cheek and absently biting a thumb nail.
Filling out the team are an Anger Girlfriend (for nagging) and a Mundanity Girlfriend (for staring absently out the window and providing silent neutral company).
It felt so much better to see it this way, a piece of their lives I'd asked for, than to encounter it on Instagram and absently double-tap.
"It was interesting going from a big huge space to a small space," Ms. Field added, absently stroking the head of her other white poodle, Bootie, who is Sultana's sister.
"I haven't been to a grocery store in like four years... I just don't even know what flavor deodorants they have anymore," Kim says while staring absently at her phone.
Richard, at loose ends since his retirement, has spent the episode driving every single member of his family insane by meddling in their business in his politely, absently judgmental fashion.
Yet finally lounging in a lavender bedroom one long-sought-after day, after absently digesting chatter about shows I didn't watch and boys I didn't know, I started processing the floating conversations.
He processed his film in a darkroom in the couple's bathroom; sometimes Marie hand-tinted the prints that showed her looking past the camera or sometimes staring directly but absently into its inquisitive lens.
I'll wash my face, apply the lotion, and touch my skin eight hours later to wonder absently why it feels so much more hydrated (and mysteriously plump?) than it would on any other day.
Aides found Mr. Clinton absently playing with old campaign buttons, and at a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, it fell to an adviser to conduct the discussion while the president's mind drifted off.
CARAMANICA Free of tempo, with just enough clutter in the left hand to sow some doubt, the pianist Ethan Iverson starts this famously bittersweet melody in one key before slipping absently into another, then another.
Much-quoted, it opens, "I sinned a sin of pleasure," and describes her affair in 143 with Nasser Khodayar, the editor in chief of Roshanfekr: In dark and quiet seclusion Absently I lay beside him.
As we watched the clowns in their baggy pants and floppy shoes dancing around with big smiles -- or tears -- painted on their faces, everyone sat on wooden bleachers and absently dropped the shucks onto the grass.
"Nowadays, the reality shows always depict the men," Alex says, serving Marisa a glass of sweet tea and absently petting Suki, a small blind Lhasa Apso who Alex says once portaled from the yard to her bedroom.
Grocery stores have become an unexpected frontline of the coronavirus pandemic, as people facing quarantines and lockdown crowd in to hoard toilet paper, flour, and hand sanitizer (or just to absently browse, which is sick and wrong).
I like to think that the Vive experience Playthings was conceived when creator George Michael Brower spilled a bunch of gummy hamburgers on a table, started drumming on them absently with his fingers, and thought Wait, I should make this in VR!
"'Help me!' people screamed," recalled Mr. Hridoy, absently picking at a thigh of Kentucky Fried Chicken and staring out the smudgy window at the typically epic traffic jam on the dusty highway out front, the relentless barrage of klaxons nearly drowning him out.
Reza's theater was like a crazy all-night gathering, everybody spinning and spinning and spinning and gradually everything just opens and opens and opens: a super-intense ritual to unwind all of this stuff that people have absently knotted themselves into, growing up in America.
On paper, raisins seem like they'd be exactly the sort of thing nostalgia-obsessed millennials might be into — curled up on the couches of their rental apartments, watching '90s TV reboots, absently popping raisins out of tiny red boxes into their 22- to 37-year-old mouths.
In bed it was all body action, wordless, and in the interval that followed he lay alone, absently scratching, and reminded himself that he'd placed all the tubes and jars inside the medicine cabinet and in the small storage area beneath the sink, beyond her range of vision.
Lil Nas X performed on a rotating stage cut into sections representing different versions of the song: one featured BTS, the K-pop supernova; another held the child yodeler Mason Ramsey and Diplo absently strumming a banjo; yet another was seemingly built for Young Thug, who was a no-show.
Interwoven in Xanther's story is her father, Anwar, whose work in game design provides some of the book's more compelling evocations (proving Danielewski isn't devoid of talent, and that perhaps he should rely on language more often than formatting theatrics), but still only semi-absently revolving around references to the structure of the characters as characters, the plot as illusory and hyperbolically blank.
Leya nodded absently, staring at the photographs, her lips quirking into a smirk.
He walks away to lean On a top rail of the corral And look across the calving pasture Toward the willow grown creek. I follow. Absently mimicking his walk, And stand a post away. We don’t speak of causes or reasons. Don’t speak at all; We just stand there Leaning on the weathered poles, While the shadows consume the pasture.
The violence escalates as they strike the baby and ultimately throw stones at it, Fred joining in. The park is about to close and they run off, Fred returning only to fetch his fishing tackle. Pam returns to retrieve the baby and talks to it absently, not having noticed that it has been stoned to death. Still oblivious, she wheels it away (= scene 6).
Meredith absently tells April she is having a miscarriage and continues to work on Hunt. Webber finds a way through the police blockade and walks through the halls of the hospital, finding several bodies. Eventually he finds Clark, who tells him he'd bought the gun at a superstore and bought extra ammo because it was on sale. Clark tells Webber he has one bullet left, revealing that he planned on shooting Webber, then himself.
Much of the copy submitted by soldiers of the Division was poetry. Some was good, some was doggerel and occasional pieces were excellent: but not all was welcome. The fourth issue contained this notice from the editor: > We regret to announce that an insidious disease is affecting the Division, > and the result is a hurricane of poetry. Subalterns have been seen with a > notebook in one hand, and bombs in the other absently walking near the wire > in deep communication with their muse.
Sumon's interests in slap bass also led the band's sound into funk-rock. After signing with G-Series, they released their debut studio album ত্রিমাত্রিক (Three-Dimensional) in October 7, 2000. The following album বিবর্তন (Evolution) released on December 10, 2001 was more positively reviewed and gained more success than the previous one. The band released several hit songs in the 2000s like "অদ্ভুত সেই ছেলেটি (That Weird Boy)" (2000), "আমার প্রতিচ্ছবি (My Reflections)" (2001), "হয়তোবা (Maybe)" (2003), "আনমনে (Absently)" (2008) and "নিকৃষ্ট (Inferior)" (2008).
The team hears that an F5 is forming close by and in a brief moment of quiet, Jo absently watches Aunt Meg's wind chimes. The image inspires an epiphany and she begins to form a plan to improve and deploy the next DOROTHY unit. As the sun rises, the team sets out to intercept the F5 tornado, which has grown to be over a mile wide. Bill and Jo lay the newly altered DOROTHY III directly in the F5's path, but it is destroyed by an uprooted tree.
Jim works as a used-car salesman and he is keen on keeping up appearances in front of the neighbors. He is psychologically unstable, drinks heavily and cheats on his wife (which she accepts) although he is also oddly protective of her, insisting that his daughters watch her all the time. His depressed wife Mary, a onetime dancer, has escaped into apathy and alcoholism a long time ago. She lives a catatonic life on the living room couch, staring absently at the television, her ever-present coffee cup full of whiskey impassively filled by one family member or another.

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