muse over

Example Sentences

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We often muse over the fact that we were both letting go of our passionate search for love around the same time, which led us to our momentous meeting.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025

They muse over certain passages and share echoes with their daily lives: the enduring memory of a late husband’s smile, or a hospital visit where madeleines were on the menu.

From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022

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

So saying, he embraced me most affectionately, and departed; while I sat to muse over the singularity of my position, and to wonder if any other man was ever similarly situated.

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James