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
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
A traveller was moving slowly up the side of the river, and ever and anon stopping, as if to muse over some particular object.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay
