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She paced back and forth in the hospital waiting room--looking pensive.pensive = appearing deep in thought
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When asked about her future, she became pensive.
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Atticus looked pensive. (source)pensive = deep in thought
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"I almost missed the train," he said, pensive. (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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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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The gesture gave the creature a pensive, thoughtful quality.† (source)pensive = appearing deep in thought
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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)pensively = with deep thought
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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)pensive = appearing deep in thought
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Meyer leaned back and stared at the ceiling pensively.† (source)pensively = with deep thought
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The Gem Fittich who had emerged from the chrysalis of the cheerful salesman was not merely harder edged and edgier; he also had peculiar eyes—eyes different from what they had been, full of not anger but an unnerving pensiveness.† (source)
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Today he'd been less impetuous, more pensive.† (source)pensive = appearing deep in thought
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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)pensively = with deep thought
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But it is merely pensiveness.† (source)
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Dr. Fisch folded his hands on the desk and sat in a pensive silence for several long moments.† (source)pensive = appearing deep in thought
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