contemplate

Example Sentences

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For Joe Bennett, it is hard to contemplate the next few days without them.

From BBC

Facing his first Christmas without his wife, Andrew thinks this is indicative of our wider inability to talk about death, to even contemplate facing our worst nightmare.

From BBC

Not so if you confess to streaming military thrillers while other, nobler souls are busy contemplating peace on earth.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mr Hunt says he and his brothers were only able to contemplate the possibility of a medal when their mother Marjory died in 2013, aged 79.

From BBC

The flip-side, the mission that Robinson is working on, is not something the Frenchman wants to contemplate.

From BBC