cogitate

How To Use cogitate In A Sentence

• When she had quite finished and he had dug out enough corroborative detail to get the picture, he went into a long silence and cogitated.
• Nicholas Martin, the director, apparently wanted to make the play more palatable by emphasizing its comic aspects, both those written by Ibsen and those, more numerous, excogitated by Martin.
• Although I like being around people, I do need my quiet time to cogitate.
• More often Arthur tells jokes - set pieces that, though funny, are either old hat or burdened with so much excogitated emphasis as to, rather than prance like Lippizaners, plod like Percherons.
• The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate
• John Yates: I should have cogitated and reflected, but it's so bloody obvious there was nothing there that we didn't already know. David Cameron spoke to Rupert Murdoch's executives about BSkyB bid
• Based on the principle of full flow extinction, this paper excogitated a pocketable opacity smoke meter.
• Thomas Paine, never modest in his claims to foresight but sometimes correct nonetheless, cogitated years later on the origin of the move to replace the Continental Congress with a true federal government. Robert Morris
• It's no criticism of your work product, and no one can excogitate the perfect bill. CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2001
• They will cogitate over policy, and they will issue grave decisions on sustainable development.