muse over
Example Sentences
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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
While the lyrics muse over farewells and disappearances, the song is anything but shy.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2017
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
How sweet and sane and peaceful and afar off those blessed days seem to me as I muse over this page.
From A Daughter of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin