What is "absentmindedly"

Usage examples of "absentmindedly".

I saw this pre-teen girl doing cartwheels on her front lawn, back and forth, slowly and sweetly, as if she were performing all those actions as absentmindedly as a Ferris wheel.

Miss Moncrieff asked her witness, gazing away absentmindedly to the ceiling.

She saw a thin bespectacled man, dressed in light tweed, make his way absentmindedly to his seat and guessed him to be Dr Colin Makepeace.

He held the flask absentmindedly in his hands, looking past it into his memory.

The girl with the beak nose had never been kissed except as a party joke or absentmindedly by departing brothers.

He was still absentmindedly rubbing his hands, as if they hurt him, and Taniquel came and took them gently into her own, holding them cradled softly between her soft fingers.

Harry nodded absentmindedly as the head-ostler of the Barbican Arms hurried off towards the stables.

Wally Whistler, absentmindedly fumbling with the catch on the spring-leaf table.

My shoes were still there where I had stepped out of them, and absentmindedly I put them on.

Neat little picture: man lighting cigarette, throws match absentmindedly in tub of pep instead of waste basket, panics, spills the stuff, steps wildly back from flames, trips over stove and knocks himself out.

There remained however the problem of telephoning to Walt: and I chewed it over thoughtfully while absentmindedly pulling prickly pear needles out of my legs.

Then, absentmindedly rubbing her arm, she reached in to get some hamburger.

Elwyn might not hurt him deliberately, but it was at least even money that she would drop him, or forget him in some inconvenient place, or absentmindedly lead him into a Chaotic Zone if she could find one.

It was a steady, rhythmic squeaking, and he turned to see that Betty was sitting on an abandoned swing set, absentmindedly swinging.

He scanned the landscape absentmindedly for his daughter, his thoughts already drifting out onto the high seas, to the north, with their drifting floes and towering bergs and secret islands wreathed in mist.