65 examples of absent-mindedly in sentences

One thought occupied the minds of all, and even Mugford, when asked on one occasion by Mr. Blake who were the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, answered absent-mindedly, "The Philistines!"

Not that he had forethought in going toward it, but he was moving absent-mindedly.

Well, that is to say, Graham was lost in thought, whereas Telly was absent-mindedly playing an old commercial: Double your pleasure, double your fun, Get double ev'rything rolled into one, Oh, double your pleasure, double your fun, with double good, double good, Double-mint gum.

" "Is Milagros going to be a nun?" asked Sarrion, absent-mindedly.

One day he stood beside the creek, gazing absent-mindedly toward the hillside.

Mr. Heatherbloom absent-mindedly gazed in the direction the big shining motor had vanished.

The promenade was punctuated by about so many "mix-ups"; Mr. Heatherbloom accepted them philosophically, or absent-mindedly.

Know the other man, Van Koon?" Van Koon had twisted round and was staring back in the direction from which they had come, he shook his head, a little absent-mindedly.

"I shall not have to take very much care of you," he said, absent-mindedly.

He has a bad habit of thrusting his bill between the bark and the tree, but he is a rare scholar, exceptionally well informed CHANTECLER [Absent-mindedly.]

She never hurried to meet you; hurrying would have spoiled the beauty of her movement; she came slowly, absent-mindedly, stopping now and then to pluck yet another of the blue spires.

Tony absent-mindedly nibbling a piece of roll already saw Dick in her mind's eye the victim of an assassin's blade.

He put the trowel, absent-mindedly, in the tea basket, and took the seat arranged for Jarvis.

The Professor went to the station with them, and absent-mindedly kissed Jarvis good-bye, which infuriated his victim and nearly sent Bambi into hysterics.

The princess refused a third glass of wine at the table, but smoked incessantly, and listened absent-mindedly to the music and the songs.

No longer did she sit the summer evenings out with Mitchell, holding his hand in her lap and absent-mindedly buffing his nails, warning him in sweet familiarity that his cuticle was "growing down."

Mr. Horace, as he had got into the habit of doing, watched her mechanically, rather absent-mindedly retailing what he imagined would interest her, from his week's observation and hearsay.

He put his arm about her, and presently and almost absent-mindedly she obeyed his pressure and bent down and kissed him.

Orchard workers came along the road, occasionally, stepping aside to make room for the famous man, though he answered their greeting absent-mindedly.

One afternoon, while Ferragut was absent-mindedly glancing at a certain Paris daily that his friend was carrying, his attention was suddenly attracted by a name printed at the head of a short article.

Next minute, perhaps, David gives utterance to a plaintive sigh, and Aaron and I pounce upon Elspeth (with our eyes) to observe its effect on her, and Elspeth wonders why Aaron is staring, and he looks apprehensively at me, and I am gazing absent-mindedly at the fender.

Even while others addressed her in conversation she was absent-mindedly recalling to memory certain English gentlemen at home who could stand comparison with this handsome fellow across the danger line.

"ANYBODY WANT THE ALBERT 'ALL?" Weary Househunter (absent-mindedly).

and I sat quietly on the beach, absent-mindedly throwing pebbles into the still water, watching the illumination of the distant mountains by the rising sun, and talking over the adventures which we had experienced since leaving Petropavlovsk.

She came and sat beside me on the river-balcony, and talked a little, desultorily and absent-mindedly.

65 examples of  absent-mindedly  in sentences