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
She puts up jam; he musingly produces about one poem every six weeks.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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Quietly, almost musingly, searching the ceiling, gazing at his polished desk, Judge Goldsborough himself took the stump.
From Time Magazine Archive
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“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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