He was still house hunting in a fairly desultory way.

In a desultory way I began to look, and one day I found it.

Their conversation drifted in a desultory way from one unimportant subject to another.

He was watching the water in a desultory way when suddenly his attention focused on a large silent shape beneath the surface.

Conversation pursued its desultory way on topics of personal, but limited, interest for a while.

The Mexicans looked at our baggage in a desultory way.

They waited for more than an hour, slumped in the car, talking in a desultory way.

So speaking, she went across to his bookshelves and began looking in a desultory way among his books.

The two of them talked in a desultory way about the weather and other such morning things.

He made no particular move while she ate, but stood leaning against the bedpost, talking in a desultory way.