muse over
Example Sentences
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While each quotation provides something to muse over, the whole thing might be best summed up by a line from the comic poet Alexis: “The entire human condition’s completely insane.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 8, 2026
As they strolled through Tiananmen Square in Beijing last September, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin appeared to muse over the possibility that organ transplants could dramatically extend human life.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
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
Sibling filmmakers muse over the possessions they find in their late grandmother’s New Jersey home in the impressionistic documentary “306 Hollywood” on a new “POV.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2019
Passage after passage we would turn back to re-read and muse over.
From The Joyful Heart by Robert Haven Schauffler
