Sentence example with the word 'pensive'

pensive

absent, brooding, conceptualized, dreamy, grave, lost in thought, museful, prehensive, sad, thinking, woolgathering

Definition adj. deeply or seriously thoughtful

Last update: March 26, 2017


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She looked pensive when she heard the news.   [adjective]

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He glanced from time to time at her sad and pensive face.   [adjective]

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Because James was sick of his wife’s pensive look, he finally answered her question.   [adjective]

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That mild, pensive manner promised sympathy and understanding, and he unconsciously inclined to confide his thoughts and opinions to her, as well as the history of his youth.   [adjective]

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Monimia, give my soul her wonted rest;-- Since first thy beauty fixed my roving eye, heart-gnawing cares corrode my pensive breast.   [adjective]

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The nonjuring clergyman was a pensive and interesting old man, with much of the air of a sufferer for conscience' sake.'   [adjective]

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The good parson made no rebuke, nodded pensive, and drove straightway to the deacon's door.   [adjective]

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Mr Bloom, so far as he was personally concerned, was just pondering in pensive mood.   [adjective]

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Time someone thought about it instead of gassing about the what was it the pensive bosom of the silver effulgence.   [adjective]

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Pensive (who knows.)   [adjective]

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She drew down pensive (why did he go so quick when I.)   [adjective]

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