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
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
Quietly, almost musingly, searching the ceiling, gazing at his polished desk, Judge Goldsborough himself took the stump.
From Time Magazine Archive
When she sang her most famous piece, "Violetera," where she goes among the audience with little violet bunches to offer musingly, withdraw capriciously, bestow impetuously, the starched and bejeweled Manhattanites arose and cheered.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Hezekiah has been calling me,” Kosi said musingly, about his cousin in Awka, who called only when he wanted money.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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