The man had been studiously keeping his back to George.

"I trust that you received my letter," she said, studiously keeping her voice businesslike.

She studiously kept herself from wondering which of the ordinary-looking men and women sharing a perfectly normal breakfast had taken part in last night's masked debauchery.

I studiously kept my hands away from any of my own weapons.

Well laid out, kept studiously in control.

For one thing, the author studiously keeps the war itself far offstage.

I kept studiously to the open.

Lions are animals that have a strange knack of appearing when they are not wanted, and keeping studiously out of the way when their presence is required.

Now he studiously kept his back to Jillian, methodically pouring whisky into a mug.

"Not he, but she," said the boy, studiously keeping from his lips the knowing grin that was bright in his eyes.