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

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

Here we began seriously to muse over what we should do.

From The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too by Elwes, Alfred