distractedly

A little distractedly, I thought as though he were thinking of something else.

Then, distractedly, he got up and moved to a different chair.

She looked around distractedly for something to take with her to drink.

While these thoughts were going through his mind, he looked around distractedly.

As usual, he was doing several things at once, all of them distractedly.

"That was before my time," he said, a little distractedly.

He looked up and down the street, as if distractedly searching for a bar.

The old man nodded distractedly: the boy was the least of his concerns.

I turn distractedly, and see my belt lying across the bed.

She stopped and looked around distractedly, as if searching for a familiar face.

Small children may simply appear to be staring or walking distractedly.

Not knowing what else to do, she poked distractedly at the fire.

She answered him distractedly, barely hearing what either of them said.

He put out his hand, and Andrea rather distractedly shook it.

Hale would be angry if he knew that, she thought distractedly.

She scribbled distractedly on paper for several months, then stopped and would do nothing.

He looked distractedly at the wall for a moment.

No wonder he had laughed at hers, she thought distractedly.

"Oh, yes," he replied distractedly, as though nothing could be less important.

Culture lag, he thought distractedly, what fun it all is.

He shrugged and smiled distractedly, as if everything I'd said made perfect sense.

He raised his head to gaze distractedly out the open window at the sky beyond.

"It's strange to think how small our world is," he said, almost distractedly.

She scratched the side of her face distractedly and asked, "Where are the other ships?"

She picked up a magazine and began to flip through it distractedly.