muse over
Example Sentences
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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
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
Les would often muse over its fate, asking friends and family if they thought the author had gotten it.
From New York Times • Dec. 19, 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
More than once did he and his fellow-captive muse over an escape, and ponder its possibilities.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 by Various
