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Example sentences for "ruminate"

Lexicographically close words:
rumbling; rumblings; rumen; ruminant; ruminants; ruminated; ruminating; rumination; ruminations; ruminative
  1. Here they retired, after the heat and bustle of the day, to feast and ruminate upon the best of living.

  2. I departed from a place where the craving intruder was not a welcome guest, and joined the camp, to feed on visions of the past, and ruminate on better things to come.

  3. Bloody discharges from the mouth and failure to eat or ruminate are symptoms most likely to attract attention.

  4. After this purgative has acted, if there is a lack of appetite and the animal does not ruminate regularly, the powder mentioned in remarks on the treatment of chronic tympanites may be given according to directions.

  5. Our hero, convinced of the truth, though not satisfied with the occasion of his admonitions, took his leave in a fit of sullen discontent, and began to ruminate upon the shattered posture of his affairs.

  6. During the night he did little else than ruminate on the events of the preceding evening.

  7. Ormond retired to ruminate on this discovery.

  8. Let those who expound Scripture to their fellows first feed and digest for themselves,--let them read and ruminate in private, not merely for others, but for themselves.

  9. And you, Mistress Jasper Tipton, you'll have many a long year for to ruminate such things through your own troubled mind.

  10. Martha Berry didn't need eye specs to see how eager the children were for learning," one of her mountain friends remarked, "and then and there she began to ruminate through her mind a way to help them help themselves.

  11. Seed usually solitary by abortion, dark chestnut-brown, marked at apex by the abortive ovules, with thick and fleshy more or less undulate ruminate sweet farinaceous cotyledons.

  12. Seed ovoid or subglobose; seed-coat very thin, conspicuously rugose and tuberculate; embryo axile in copious subcorneous ruminate albumen; cotyledons oblong.

  13. From this to ruminate on it, until Collier conj.

  14. From this to ruminate on it so far, until Collier (Collier MS.

  15. For him to ruminate this so far, until Lettsom conj.

  16. For him to ruminate on this, until Pope.

  17. It is like those Repositories in several Animals, that are filled with Stores of their former Food, on which they may ruminate when their present Pasture fails.

  18. Again; for another case whereon the better-favoured heart may ruminate in charity.

  19. As for the squire, he did nothing but ruminate in rueful silence upon the dappled gelding, the nosegay, and the predicted fate of Gilbert.

  20. The knight, being thus abandoned to his own meditations, began to ruminate on the present adventure with equal surprise and concern; but the more he revolved circumstances, the more was he perplexed in his conjectures.

  21. The more Sir Launcelot surveyed this agreeable maiden, the more he felt himself disposed to take care of her fortune; and from this day he began to ruminate on a scheme which was afterwards consummated in her favour.

  22. Here our conversation ended, and I retired to ruminate on what had passed.

  23. Well, your master will probably have five years to ruminate over the wrong he has done you.

  24. Kate bowed, and smiled her thanks, and, once again alone, sat down to ruminate an her fortune.

  25. Upon this we parted, and I returned to my room in the caravanserai to ruminate over what had happened.

  26. I, who it appears was to be the victim, left my watching-place to ruminate upon what was likely to be my future destiny.

  27. Upon this he left me, to set off immediately for Tehran, whilst I retired to my tent, to ruminate over the horrid fate that awaited this unfortunate girl.

  28. Noon is very far off, and many are unable to get through this mortal interval of four hours without a second and third visit to the dear bar-room, after which they ruminate again.

  29. I then ruminate upon all her care and tenderness, and am sometimes lost and absorbed in a flood of tenderness ere I am aware of it, or can call to my aid my only prop and support.

  30. It is not fit "to wake the soul by tender strokes of art," or to ruminate upon happiness we might enjoy, lest absence become intolerable.

  31. So my dear lord and master handed my lady into his chariot, and her kinsman and his servants rode after them and I went up to my closet to ruminate on these things.

  32. And so, after I had dried my eyes, I went in, and began to ruminate with myself what I had best to do.

  33. Having this morning spent some time in reading on the subject of the vicissitude of human life, I laid aside my book, and began to ruminate on the discourse which raised in me those reflections.

  34. Closing his eyes, he continued to ruminate on these possibilities, until at length he dropped into a slumber.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruminate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bite; brood; chew; chump; conceive; consider; contemplate; crunch; debate; deliberate; digest; gnash; gnaw; grind; gum; masticate; meditate; mouth; mumble; munch; muse; nibble; perpend; ponder; reflect; revolve; ruminate; scrunch; speculate; study; think; weigh