musingly
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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She paused, then said musingly, “I have several pretty house dresses. I could throw one on and come down and talk to you… but I’m too lazy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 1974
Once, remarking on his previous incarnation as the 13th Dalai Lama, he said musingly: "It is funny that the former body was so fond of horses and that they mean so little to me."
From Time Magazine Archive
When I was a young man, an old professor in Germany, who was the greatest man in our field, said to me musingly: "In our profession one needs a certain abnegation."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Chinese musingly released a barbed shaft: "In my country we have a similar saying, 'Once a friend, always a friend.'"
From Time Magazine Archive
“I wonder what she is thinking,” Aunty Uju said sadly, musingly While she was in America, The General had one of the bedrooms repainted a brilliant white.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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