Sample Sentences for
pensive
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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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    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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    Meyer leaned back and stared at the ceiling pensively.†  (source)
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    But it is merely pensiveness.†  (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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    and she was leaning pensive on a tombstone on her right elbow, under a weeping willow,  (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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    "No," she said, and in her sudden pensiveness she could have been mistaken for beautiful.†  (source)
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    The gesture gave the creature a pensive, thoughtful quality.†  (source)
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    Tony scratched his nose pensively.†  (source)
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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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    Upstairs, when they returned, they found Mama sitting in the kitchen, alone and pensive.†  (source)
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