Sample Sentences for
pensive
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    and she was leaning pensive on a tombstone on her right elbow, under a weeping willow,  (source)
    pensive = appearing deep in thought
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    Rawlins rode with one leg crossed in front of him, leaning on his knee and smoking pensively as he studied the country.  (source)
    pensively = with deep thought
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    "I almost missed the train," he said, pensive.  (source)
    pensive = appearing deep in thought
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    The gesture gave the creature a pensive, thoughtful quality.†  (source)
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    Meyer leaned back and stared at the ceiling pensively.†  (source)
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    "No," she said, and in her sudden pensiveness she could have been mistaken for beautiful.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Upstairs, when they returned, they found Mama sitting in the kitchen, alone and pensive.†  (source)
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    Christopher-John's whistling increased to a raucous, nervous shrill, and grudgingly I let the matter drop and trudged along in moody silence, my brothers growing as pensively quiet as I. Before us the narrow, sun-splotched road wound like a lazy red serpent dividing the high forest bank of quiet, old trees on the left from the cotton field, forested by giant green-and purple stalks, on the right.†  (source)
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    But it is merely pensiveness.†  (source)
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    He counted to twenty-three before she came back, her face drawn and pensive.†  (source)
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    On Old Earth, my poetry was composed on a Sadu-Dekenar cornlog thought processor while I lounged in a padded chaise 1ongue or floated in my EM barge above dark lagoons or walked pensively through scented bowers.†  (source)
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    The sportive sunlight—feebly sportive, at best, in the predominant pensiveness of the day and scene—withdrew itself as they came nigh, and left the spots where it had danced the drearier, because they had hoped to find them bright.†  (source)
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    Dr. Fisch folded his hands on the desk and sat in a pensive silence for several long moments.†  (source)
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