contemplative
Example Sentences
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The camera lingers on a boombox on a shelf as she sets out on a contemplative drive.
From Los Angeles Times • May 7, 2026
I usually spend the first four or five to six minutes with my eyes closed in some sort of contemplative state.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 27, 2026
After the energy of the five opening songs, we hear the resonant toll of The Sacred Bell of King Seongdeok - one of Korea's national treasures - and BTS slip into a more contemplative mode.
From BBC • Mar. 20, 2026
Unlike Douglas Sirk’s beautifully photographed Technicolor melodramas of the 1950s, or the subgenre’s more narratively contemplative, weepy entries from the late ’70s, the new guard of romantic tearjerkers doesn’t have a pronounced stylistic draw.
From Salon • Mar. 19, 2026
The little girl looked at me, secretive, contemplative.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Vocabulary lists containing contemplative
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