(1) He was looking studiously down to avoid meeting her eyes.

(2) She sat at her desk and studiously ignored me.

(3) They studiously avoided/ignored each other.

(4) We studiously avoided the indelicate subject of her divorce.

(5) He studiously avoided answering the question.

(6) When I looked at Clive, he studiously avoided my eyes.

(7) The report studiously avoided any mention of the controversial plan.

(8) His expression remained studiously blank.

(9) I studiously avoided his company.

(10) They were all studiously avoiding meeting his gaze, though he thought they were watching him out of the sides of their eyes.

(11) But for most, in a community that is studiously disinterested in celebrity, Simpson is simply ignored.

(12) She maintains a studiously upright posture as she talks, yet her voice is gentle, her expression open and kindly.

(13) It was studiously careful not to speculate beyond the established facts.

(14) This simple fact was studiously ignored by ill-disposed critics, then and since.

(15) But the mayor had studiously avoided endorsing any of the old pols running.

(16) The gaunt, grey-haired sergeant fixes me with a studiously suspicious look and takes a note of my name and the time.

(17) He studiously finished filling the pint glass, ignoring the raucous voices from the other end of the bar for the moment.

(18) In another we see the same man, older, studiously working over a microscope as a marine biologist.

(19) She examined the data studiously.

(20) They studiously avoided each other.

(21) In fact[Sentencedict], they studiously avoid it.

(22) Mr Abe has studiously suppressed a debate about raising the consumption tax.

(23) I studiously avoided speaking to him of Marguerite, for I was still afraid that the name would reawaken some sad memory which slumbered beneath the sick man's apparent calm.

(24) But Mr Dee studiously avoids such easy clich é s.

(25) Joe's expression had gone studiously blank, and his jaw had tightened.

(26) McCaffrey is also notorious for his thin skin, which may explain why he has studiously avoided public debate.

(27) I wrote the letter a dozen times, trying to moderate the tone, studiously expunging all traces of passion.

(28) On the contrary, it works within the framework of the Zande legal code and studiously observes all its provisions and prescriptions.

(29) During his own tenure as astronomer royal, from 1720 to 1742, Halley studiously tracked the moon.

(30) Meanwhile, US companies from Dellto Microsoft and Apple gazed studiously elsewhere.