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Example sentences for "ruminations"

Lexicographically close words:
ruminants; ruminate; ruminated; ruminating; rumination; ruminative; rummage; rummaged; rummaging; rummer
  1. Eckhardt's ruminations were interrupted by the sound of a tambourine, and looking up from his reverie, he perceived that the populace were gathering in a wide circle before the fountain, attracted by the sound of the instrument.

  2. My personal ruminations on the situation turned out to be too Machiavellian for anybody to entertain seriously.

  3. As always when he was with her she seemed to grow gradually older until at the end ruminations too deep for words would be wintering in her eyes.

  4. So Monk had been reasoning for some time; and it was on the 17th of March, the day after the dissolution of the Parliament of the Secluded Members, that his ruminations had taken practical effect.

  5. This question had passed through Cromwell's mind, and the results of his ruminations upon it appear most succinctly in one of his letters to Mazarin.

  6. These ruminations might or might not have reached Mark Tapley; for though they were by no means addressed to him, yet they were softly uttered.

  7. These ruminations were interrupted by a call down stairs to see a learned bullfinch.

  8. These afflicting ruminations were at length interrupted by the sound of feet; she took her handkerchief from her eyes, expecting to see her sisters; she was mistaken, and beheld Mandlebert.

  9. For he who sought to circumvent the scrutiny of others to pursue his strange stern ruminations his only wish was to be seated in solitude; and not having it, he accepted a more remote variation.

  10. She thought of this peculiar sense of ownership that flared within her; and although she would be amused by ruminations of its senselessness in the immediate future, now she judged it was time to be irate.

  11. She loved her ruminations more than any other earthling she encountered.

  12. In the midst of his ruminations he heard the silvery mirth of Ilaria from the depths of the gardens, and the pain itself seemed to guide his steps towards her.

  13. I am bound for Viterbo," Francesco replied, glad to have the monotony of the journey and the trend of his ruminations relieved by one who had, at one time, been of such signal service to him.

  14. The arrival at the house cut short his ruminations and he hastened into the well-known drawing-room and there waited impatiently while the maid summoned Kitty from her bedroom.

  15. He allowed his ruminations to quickly shuffle through his mind once more, for they amused him tremendously.

  16. Specifically, ruminations of being a kinder man than he wanted to be and obviously not succeeding at that to a memory of the father, and from the father to the Laotian: this, he supposed, was the chronology of his recent thoughts.

  17. Monica's ruminations were brought to an abrupt termination at this moment by the door opening, and a pleasant rattle of teacups sounded on her ears as the footman appeared with the tea equipage.

  18. It was at this point in his ruminations that Tom suddenly became possessed of a new idea--an explanation of the organ-like sound he heard.

  19. These ruminations were scarcely to the point, however; Tom desired to do something, not to remain inactive.

  20. Such were the ruminations of Major Miles Bellenden, which were terminated by John Gudyill (not more than half-drunk) taking hold of his bridle, and assisting him to dismount in the roughpaved court of Tillietudlem.

  21. These disagreeable ruminations were interrupted by a loud knocking at the outer-gate.

  22. I tell you these ruminations and reasonings of mine that you may perceive how I turned the matter over with myself in a candid spirit, and was led away neither by prejudice nor passion.

  23. His ruminations on the Troad, in Don Juan, afford an instance of this, and are conceived in the very spirit of Childe Harold.

  24. These ruminations had lately taken a definite direction, and it was after several conversations which he had held with his friend Matt Pike.

  25. This puzzle had led him to not unfrequent ruminations in his mind as to whether or not his vocation might lie in something higher than the mere tilling of the ground.

  26. Chevenix perceived this rather late in the day, and ended his ruminations in a whistle.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruminations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.