Distractedly

I got a sweet Asian wrap and crunched on it distractedly as I scrolled through my texts.

At the boardwalk, young Valdez marveled at a red helium balloon his father bought him, but a moment later, he distractedly released it to grab the hotdogs his mother just handed him.

I was humoring his particularity regarding kitchen instruments, and as we walked to the store I prattled on distractedly, working through some big idea that I hadn’t quite wrapped my head around yet.

I think she’d find this era when we’re so often gazing distractedly into a cell phone and ignoring the people around us completely bonkers.

Burgess has said of his largely solitary childhood: "I was either distractedly persecuted or ignored.

For instance, distractedly drumming ones fingers on the table seems to fall somewhere in the middle.