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Example sentences for "think over"

  • And then in winter, when I sit alone, I think over everything--and the Bible is a good book, a book a man can draw wisdom from.

  • I should think there isn't much to think over.

  • I am going to lie down for an hour or two now: I have had some business to think over.

  • And he could not regret that he had ever met her, when he would have these six mornings of happy intercommunion to think over, when the wide seas separated them?

  • Think over what I have said, my dear friend; and remember, above all things, where your chief duty lies.

  • I suppose I ought to write to Barnard, or to his people; but it's not an agreeable task, and I'll think over it.

  • Calvert passed the day in his room; he had much to think over, and several letters to write.

  • You will no more, then, think over a matter to any good purpose after twelve o'clock in the day.

  • Dechamp did not quite see his way to that--but there was plenty of time to think over it!

  • Think over it until you can fully take in the prodigious favor to slavery which this countenance of it by the American bible of bibles naturally created in the north and south.

  • The more I think over it, the more clearly I see that this was the true way for us to have fought.

  • I often fancy, as I think over it, that the last quotation describes suggestions from the fates.

  • I had to think over this a few days before I could begin to guess what it meant; and three days after, she came to see me.

  • Now this was a new slant on the question, and I had to think over it for a while.

  • There was no fire in my room, and it was cold; so there was no place to sit except in the barroom, which I found deserted but for one man, when I went back and sat down to think over my future.

  • I shall never forget the strange mélange of feelings, pleasurable and the reverse, which came over me as I first found myself alone, and had time to think over my condition.

  • I made a great display of knowledge in shuffling and arranging the cards, the better to think over what I was about; and at last, disposing some dozen in certain mystic positions before me, I began.

  • This was the question which she had left him to think over, and it was one which excluded every other thought for some days.

  • As I sat by the side of this great surgeon, a question suggested itself to my mind which I leave the reader to think over.

  • The face of that unhappy man is yet before me, and all the calm in which I have written up to this leaves me, as I think over one of the most terrible incidents of my life.

  • They actually set me to think over all my faults and failings, and wonder for which of them I am now arraigned.

  • She said she 'd think over it and tell me to-morrow.

  • In truth, he was very anxious to be alone, and to think over, at his leisure, a short passage in his letter which he had not summoned courage to read aloud.

  • I began in perplexity to think over it, and wasn't at all sure.

  • Yes, I remember you, now that I come to think over it.

  • Think over it, dear reader, and you will see that every opinion you may have as to a fact, a person, or an object has been sensibly influenced by the recollection of the little trifle that caught your eye at the first glance.

  • When I think over it now I can hardly keep my countenance.

  • But it seems to me that we are whispering a little too much, dear; let me think over my little bill.

  • How things had been ordained for him in this world, he had now time to think over.

  • It had enough to think over, and time enough to think, for it lay there for years; but at last one day folks came down there to look for some bottles, and took this one with them.

  • Thou shalt not be ordered away; thou shalt have leave to remain outside here to think over and to repent thy life down yonder; but within this gate thou shalt not enter until in good works thou hast performed something.

  • This done, I sat down alone to think over my adventure, and devise if I could some means to prevent its publicity, or if not that, its being garbled and misstated.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "think over" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    baked clay; beautiful lady; civilian clothes; dialogue partner; heavy bombardment; her voice very low; remained silent; since she; think how; think maybe; think over; think proper; think shame; think slavery; think the; think thou; think upon; think well; think what; thinkest thou; thinking aloud; thinking being; thinking that; thinking what; thinks proper; thou knows