Absent-mindedly in a Sentence
  • Miss Keller talks to herself absent-mindedly in the manual alphabet.
  • He was not thinking of anything, but looked absent-mindedly and cheerfully from side to side.
  • She took it absent-mindedly and followed her friend through the mansion.
  • Anatole, having taken off his overcoat, sat with arms akimbo before a table on a corner of which he smilingly and absent-mindedly fixed his large and handsome eyes.
  • As soon as Prince Andrew began to demonstrate the defects of the latter and the merits of his own plan, Prince Dolgorukov ceased to listen to him and gazed absent-mindedly not at the map, but at Prince Andrew's face.
  • Pierre smiled absent-mindedly, evidently not grasping what she said.
  • And as often happens with old people, Kutuzov began looking about absent-mindedly as if forgetting all he wanted to say or do.
  • Napoleon smiled and, lifting his head absent-mindedly, glanced to the right.