What is "absently"

Usage examples of "absently".

Jacuzzi, absently squeezing the tennis ball he still absently squeezes out of habit.

The tolling of a distant clock absently spoke the midnight hour, but Cassandra was wide awake as she dreamed, consumed by better days.

Gilwyn frowned as he absently went about shelving books from his cart.

He picked up a knife from the table and twirled it absently in his fingers.

While they worked, Lukien leaned against the wagon, absently watching the stars appear.

Ross absently pulled the cigarette from his mouth and looked at it, brow knotted in concentration.

Conal now sat on its sculpted door, and absently traced a slender finger along an air intake, glowering at the envelope.

Dottie stood up from her hiding place behind an overturned sofa across the room, and made her way across the smashed lights and broken video equipment to his side, absently reloading from her bandoleer.

Jessy retorted in an absently teasing fashion as her glance strayed to the activity at the headgate.

Handing it over, she absently flicked a glance at the cowboy then let it stay when she recognized the sandy-haired rider she had noticed earlier with Jessy.

Jessy agreed absently while her gaze took in the broad expanse of plains before them, rugged and rolling into forever.

He sighed and smiled absently at the image of the saint in the corner.

Each time he returned to the car, he half expected the girl to be gone, but she sat quietly holding the baby and absently stared toward infinity.

Suddenly he glanced absently at the pistol in his hand, and returned it to his holster.

Nimmy wondered absently if he should confess to eating barbecued wilddog on abstinence days, even though the cardinal had granted dispensation in an emergency situation.