How to use "pensive" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "pensive" in popular movie and book plots

  • Mohan Karekar is a pensive letter-writer who lives with his wife, Lakshmi, in the housing complex of Saraswati Park in suburban Mumbai.  - Saraswati Park
  • Jim looks pensive when Pam tells the cameramen that, with work and kids, nothing interesting will happen to the Halperts in a long time.  - New Guys
  • At dinner, the family is quietly pensive until Millie reveals the truth of what happened to the mill.  - A Dog of Flanders (1999 film)
  • While Vikrant is guilty and pensive due to the turn of events, Kabir emerges alive.  - Kidnap (2008 film)
  • As the race starts up again, she tries to put her pensive feelings aside and concentrate on winning, but she is not able to hide her distress.  - Drive (Star Trek: Voyager)
  • One day, the statue notices that Marcelino is pensive and brooding instead of happy, and tells him that he would like to reward his kindness.  - Miracle of Marcelino
  • In a pensive moment when Kay is left alone on stage she seems to slip into a reverie and has a vision of the future.  - Time and the Conways
  • The Doctor is in a pensive mood, and he shouts angrily at Ace when she finds his granddaughter Susan's clothing and dresses in it as a joke.  - Nightshade (Doctor Who)
  • At the end of summer, with the girls talking about returning to school, Fabrizio becomes pensive and agitated.  - Maladolescenza
  • dr Takiyama is merely shown looking pensive in the helicopter that carries her off the island.  - Metal Gear Acid 2
  • On the moonlit eve of his coronation ceremony, pensive Prince Myer sits at the lakeside to ponder the future of the kingdom.  - Deadly Towers
  • At the end, the audience sees a pensive Jack and Sally back together.  - Husbands and Wives
  • Another of the class's island examples is Saint Helena, which puts Napoleon into a pensive daydream.  - Napoléon (1927 film)

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