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
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
Quietly, almost musingly, searching the ceiling, gazing at his polished desk, Judge Goldsborough himself took the stump.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the woman murmurs musingly: "How could I have suspected that this city was made in the image of love?"
From Time Magazine Archive
“I ain’t seen him,” she said, musingly, “for more than twenty years.”
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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