muse over
Example Sentences
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During intimate evening reveries and at occasional large-scale gatherings, they muse over the decades they’ve spent cultivating their own talents, with joy, satisfaction and maybe a twinge of regret.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2023
Lying in bed that night, hating my husband for his deep sleep, I started to muse over possible dishes.
From Salon • Dec. 18, 2018
After a brief pause to muse over Sarah Palin, one soon moves to the late Ronald Reagan, the last entertainer who ran for the Presidency of the United States, which he won.
From The New Yorker • May 3, 2016
By then I was mature enough to muse over how Plath's self-dramatising highs and lows could have devolved into pure horror, but I never found the clear link between her exuberance and what followed.
From The Guardian • Feb. 8, 2013
Charley did not reply for a few seconds; he seemed to muse over the question.
From The Young Fur Traders by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
