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"Pensive" in a Sentence (14 examples)
That left him pensive.
She looked pensive.
Tom looked pensive.
Pensive he stood, and with a rising tear, / "What lands, Achates, on the earth, but know / our labours?"
Holmes was turning the pipe about in his hand, and staring at it in his peculiar pensive way.
"When, musing sad and pensive, thou hast found / beside an oak-fringed river, on the shore, / a huge sow thirty-farrowed, and around, / milk-white as she, her litter, mark the ground, / that spot shall see thy promised town; for there / thy toils are ended, and thy rest is crowned."
Filby became pensive.
Filby became pensive. “Clearly,” the Time Traveller proceeded, “any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have Length, Breadth, Thickness, and—Duration. But through a natural infirmity of the flesh, which I will explain to you in a moment, we incline to overlook this fact. There are really four dimensions, three which we call the three planes of Space, and a fourth, Time. There is, however, a tendency to draw an unreal distinction between the former three dimensions and the latter, because it happens that our consciousness moves intermittently in one direction along the latter from the beginning to the end of our lives.”
You look pensive.
Why are you looking so pensive today?
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He sat in pensive silence, weighing his options carefully.
The author’s tone grows pensive in the final chapters.
Abstruse thought and profound researches I prohibit, and will severely punish, by the pensive melancholy which they introduce
Through the deep grass the faces of the three children glowed like pensive moons.
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