The first who presents himself is the ruminative hermit already mentioned--a species of uninspired Thoreau.
Yet it was only by a second or even a third glance that the more inquisitive might have detected anything arresting in that forlornly ruminative figure with the pendulous and withered throat and cheek-flaps.
The bank raised the reward to eight thousand this week," interposed the ruminative Copeland.
The other lady, tall, slender, gently ruminative once more, stood at the window and with bowed head looked down at the lake.
Thorpe had concluded his philosophical remarks with ruminative slowness.
Mr. Macomber did likewise and gravely and deliberately clipped the end in the mechanical clipper on the counter, lighted it, and took a few ruminative puffs, gazing at the ceiling.
Zenie turned away from the inspection and, finding herself and appendage the centre of interest, bridled with a timid pleasure, and then poked a ruminative finger into the swaddle of shawl and comforter.
I caught her looking at me sometimes with a smile and a sort of ruminative look in her eyes; once, when I smiled back, she gave a little laugh.
The old horse cropped the young shoots with a contented, ruminative air, once in a while pausing to hang his head drowsily, and bask motionless in the warmth.
Bronson Perkins, a cousin of mine, a big, silent, ruminative lad who had long hung about Susie, stood no show at all.
Such people peruse him in an enjoyably ruminative way at their meals, or read him in the neglige of retirement.
Oh yes, she is very strong," in a ruminative manner.
From a reverie which may or may not have resembled this if it had been made into actual language, the sudden spontaneous flight of the whole charming flock roused poor ruminative Claire.
Peter looked at me out of a rueful yet ruminative eye.
He was hot and breathless and, lighting his big pipe, sat in the shade, his ruminative eye on the fast approaching canoe.
And when the mayor concluded, Dibbott did not move but began to rumble in a deep, throaty, ruminative voice something that sounded like one hundred and thirty thousand dollars at six per cent.
And her great ruminative eyes are as clear and limpid as any woodland pool.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruminative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
