Get Free Checker

How To Use Contemplate In A Sentence

  • Surrounded by cottonwoods and aspens and featuring a wooden footbridge and an abundance of regional flora and foliage, it's a place to meditate, contemplate, and relax.
  • According to the 1956 agreement on the machinery, industrial action should only be contemplated when all the relevant stages have been exhausted.
  • The Colts coach will again contemplate whether to retire after his team was eliminated from the playoffs by the Chargers for a second consecutive season. NFL Replay: Staying or going, Dungy's historic place is secure
  • The idea that s. 8 protects an individuals’s privacy in garbage until the last unpaid bill rots into dust, or the incriminating letters turn into muck and are no longer decipherable, is to my mind too extravagant to contemplate. SCC: No Privacy Interest in Things We Throw Out : Law is Cool
  • In some things it may be well that emotion is greater than logic; but emotion _in logic_ is sad to contend with, sad even to contemplate -- and such is too often the reasoning of the untrained woman. Public Speaking
Enhance Your English Writing Skills
Fix common errors and boost your confidence in every sentence.
Get started
for free
Enhance Your English Writing Skills
  • All Father Damien could do at first was contemplate the pattern of the flock out of which the great logos of his passion was written. THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
  • Arkady consumed a pirog he bought at a kiosk while he contemplated Lenin, who studied a pigeon. Stalin's Ghost
  • Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
  • The alternative of the commons is too horrifying to contemplate.
  • At last the fighting ceases, giving Fleming time to contemplate his experiences.
  • That craziest part about it was that for a moment after she'd said it, he had actually contemplated madness and mayhem.
  • Especially the flowerage of spring time, with its many wild flowers and the rows of fruit trees along the fairways, make even the most ambitious golf player stop and contemplate nature's dazzling beauty.
  • He observes the annual round of sowers and barley harvesters, goes stubblewalking, and contemplates how the modern combine has forever changed life for rural farmers.
  • Except the gangster is also forcing money from Jonah and Olaf, forcing the timid men to contemplate killing him to protect Stella and themselves. Night Flights: March 2010 Edition « Screaming Blue Reviews
  • Tapan contemplated the cracked image of his own face in that mirror for a long time.
  • The thought that she might be dead was too terrible to contemplate.
  • Revolutions are only contemplated by cadres with intense preferences: most workers in liberal democracies will not vote for a revolution.
  • Sam tells him to just stop talking before turning to contemplate the four gallons of go-juice sitting in the Impala's trunk ... then he quietly asks Dean not to watch. Chron.com Chronicle
  • It would be sounded high that he debased human nature, which has a "cognation," so the reverend and learned Doctor Cudworth calls it, with the divine; that the soul of man, immaterial and immortal by its nature, was made to contemplate higher and nobler objects than this sensible world, and even than itself, since it was made to contemplate God and to be united to Him. Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
  • The third stage is actually to put into practice what we have heard and what we have contemplated.
  • The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate.
  • The instruments the subject of the lien are delivered to the bank for collection, or for retention until maturity, which means that realization is contemplated by the parties.
  • We are asked by the author, a biographer not only of Charles Dickens but of London too, to contemplate the novelist unbuttoned, in peep-show dishabille.
  • Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
  • Jack sighed and paced through the lobby, attempting to contemplate what to do next.
  • Intent, beside the form it has in language, where it makes the soul of grammar, has many other modes of expression, in mathematical and logical reasoning, in action, and in those contemplated and suspended acts which we call estimation, policy, or morals. The Life of Reason
  • It's at times like these when I sit and contemplate and plot.
  • The prophecy, probably, contemplates ultimately, besides the affliction and deliverance in Sennacherib's time, the destruction of Jerusalem by Rome, the dispersion of the Jews, their restoration, the destruction of the enemies that besiege the city (Zec 14: 2), and the final glory of Israel (Isa 29: 17-24). Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • Only if public order appeared to be on the verge of breaking down would the government contemplate restricting political liberty.
  • 'The first instance I shall give of the abiding influence of strong impressions received in infancy, is in the character of a lady who is now no more; and who was too eminent for piety and virtue, to leave any doubt of her being now exalted to the enjoyment of that felicity which her enfeebled mind, during its abode on earth, never dared to contemplate. The Mother's Book
  • Even so, we may still be forced to contemplate changes in the way information is conveyed.
  • Certainly, you can confront the transgressor, contemplate revenge, or hold a grudge forever.
  • It is interesting to contemplate the effects this widespread automated dealing would have on the stock market.
  • He contemplated whether to endure Curt's verbal abusiveness or silently return to his room.
  • We had to contemplate striking a new print and making a new telecine which is expensive.
  • In a corner, young Curry Shepherd, his blazer looking slightly the worse for wear, sat meditating on the relative merits of death by garotting or a slow boiling in oil, both of which he contemplated with BMW in mind, the DCSS having called him from a warm bed, next to a warm and loving woman at the dawn's early light. Final Resting Place of The Pen
  • In the previous episode during the first dance Claire captures Nate's image as he contemplates a seagull picking at the wedding cake.
  • The shape of the Tower represents the gate of the eternal present which rests in balance between the future and the past between the contemplator and the contemplated. I Ching…influences for the day. In harmony with nature… « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture
  • I contemplated sitting up, but a throb of pain from my shoulder threw that idea out the window.
  • For creative work, cats are excellent to contemplate when they are in repose.
  • The statutory meaning of notice to quit covers a notice exercising a break clause and clearly contemplates that a fixed term tenancy determinable by such a notice is still a ‘term of years certain’.
  • The law must contemplate the full and often sordid scope of social reality.
  • Leaning back against the ecru toned, linen textured wall, she contemplated crossing the room to flick the light switch that would bathe the room in harsh fluorescent glare, but dismissed the idea.
  • Originally VW contemplated closing the works for two or three months in order to train strike-breakers.
  • I contemplated of forging a letter from the management to complain about the noise pollution he’s causing (it’s been two weeks) but resorted to calling the guardhouse and asked the guards to tell him instead. Natinski Diary Entry
  • It did not forbid the disinherison of direct descendants, inasmuch as it did not legislate against a contingency which no Roman lawgiver of that era could have contemplated. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
  • I had begun to contemplate the possibility of a life entirely without her.
  • At first, when I was unaware of this interest of his in my affairs, he had to divine my intentions, as, for instance, at Papeete, when I contemplated going partners with a knavish fellow-countryman on a guano venture. THE HEATHEN
  • Given more time to contemplate the nature of his existence, Doug One suffers from a woeful identity crisis.
  • A night to bring any man to contemplate the dogged scourge of Lady Fortune's whip with a jaundiced eye.
  • SCORPIO: While you are familiar with the lesson of the unfortunate Chris Farley (as shown below), it would be good for you to contemplate the purpose of the Supreme Being in gifting you with wealth, power, influence, and a dynamic sex life. Archive 2007-10-01
  • All day he did nothing but contemplate.
  • He finally turned to her, shook his head slowly from side to side and swung back to contemplate the dusk.
  • Worse still, some practices which Sacrosanctum Concilium had never even contemplated were allowed into the Liturgy, like Mass “versus populum”, Holy Communion on the hand, altogether giving up on the Latin and Gregorian Chant in favour of the vernacular and songs and hymns without much space for God, and extension beyond any reasonable limits of the faculty to concelebrate at Holy Mass. Archbishop Ranjith's Foreword to "True Development of the Liturgy"
  • Yet these are just the offences for which the law contemplates disherison. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
  • Apparently Britain had moved a millimetre, it's so weird to contemplate that an earthquake can move a land mass that's so far away.
  • How could you even contemplate publishing an image so blatantly hateful to women.
  • Whether he ever contemplated replacing the monks by secular canons, we do not know.
  • He may try to blast his way out of trouble, playing attacking shots to balls he would not normally contemplate hitting.
  • But the devastation already wrought in it is heartrending to contemplate.
  • But when we actually contemplated some evil intention directed towards us, it seemed a little chillier.
  • Three meals a day are taken in a group, but in silence and as another form of meditation, as each mouthful is slowly chewed and contemplated.
  • Anyway, interstellar travel would be amazingly expensive - perhaps too expensive for most civilizations to contemplate.
  • Wearing trousers or trews was not contemplated hence the improvisation later.
  • But confession was too awful to contemplate, even with Rose.
  • Every time consciousness contemplates itself, it must fall into an infinite regress. THE BROKEN GOD
  • As Leslie admitted yesterday, he had even contemplated suicide as he buckled under the weight of the pressure.
  • While Pottz tacked to and fro energetically seeking out the elusive peak, Richie dropped anchor and contemplated the horizon.
  • It seems that our collective wish for this state is so strong that we are quite unable to contemplate the opposite.
  • contemplate one's navel
  • He downed the last of the coffee in one, closed the newspaper, rinsed the dregs out of the cup, and contemplated - not for the first time - that maybe he thought too much.
  • All those who were in any manner connected with the contemplated expedition disclaimed the idea of treasonable designs, averring that, if such were the views of Colonel Burr, they had been deceived. Memoirs of Aaron Burr
  • He gives a tough, tight smile as he contemplates his boyhood self, and you can almost hear the schoolchildren of Glasgow breathe a sigh of relief.
  • In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate. Rene Descartes 
  • Mrs. Dods put on a joyous countenance at this proposal, protesting that all should be done in her power to make things agreeable; and while her good friend, Mr. Bindloose, expatiated upon the comfort her new guest would experience at the Cleikum, she silently contemplated with delight the prospect of a speedy and dazzling triumph, by carrying off a creditable customer from her showy and successful rival at the Well. Saint Ronan's Well
  • His wife, on the one side, in her pearlings and pudding-sleeves, put the last finishing touch to her holiday’s apparel, while she contemplated a very handsome and good-humoured face in a broken mirror, raised upon the “bink” The Bride of Lammermoor
  • I suppose I was too young to contemplate dying, but the notion of disfigurement was devastating.
  • The thought that she might be dead was too terrible to contemplate.
  • For others the prospect of the radical change which must be wrought is too heartrending to be contemplated and the comfort of the known is preferable. Some Views on South Africa's Future
  • The results of that are too horrifying to contemplate.
  • In such circumstances actual results influence judgments of responsibility and culpability even though the agent did not contemplate the result which occurred.
  • “The Shah of Persia,” a mellifluous voice announced, “contemplates an increment of his hareem.” At Swim, Two Boys
  • Still others partake in the religious consumption of charas hand-made cannabis hashish and contemplate the cosmic nature and presence of God. Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: The Skulls of Yahel Chirinian
  • And I got the grumps today because nine of ten friends I called today to ask nicely to hang out with said they couldn't, even if today was the only day in the week I could even contemplate hanging out.
  • Furthermore, it was plain that the provision contemplated deduction from each instalment as it was paid.
  • Why is Mrs. Bardell so earnestly entreated not to agitate herself about this warming – pan, unless (as is no doubt the case) it is a mere cover for hidden fire — a mere substitute for some endearing word or promise, agreeably to a preconcerted system of correspondence, artfully contrived by Pickwick with a view to his contemplated desertion, and which I am not in a condition to explain? The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
  • Bearing in mind the geographical locations of the superpowers, this is easier to contemplate than achieve.
  • Henry James was a difficult case for him to contemplate because each, in his own way, was 'déraciné'.
  • But the ends to which it aspires are neither moderate, nor reasonable, and it gives me a squirmy feeling to contemplate them.
  • At £7bn - the top end of expectations - it would still be half the value put on the business when it last contemplated flotation in 2000.
  • On March 26 the board agreed to name Cruyff president of honour, but article 16 only contemplates members of honour," Toni Freixa, a spokesman for the new Barcelona board of directors told local media. Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie
  • Then her own lips lost their evenness, and she struggled long before she could pluck up courage to contemplate this new disaster.
  • For a long time he contemplated the figure on the tatami, and as he did so his muscles began to lose their relaxedness. The Miko
  • What a wonderful scene they contemplate from the heights.
  • If a contraption doesn't beep or burr when he switches it on, it's just too demeaning for him even to contemplate.
  • I do not contemplate any opposition from him.
  • No army corps commander can ever be sure he has enough authority over his units to contemplate a coup.
  • Back in 1989, as he contemplated a Test debut bowling to Marsh, Taylor, Boon, Border, Jones and S Waugh on an Oval shirtfront, Alan Igglesden received a timely self-esteem boost when the chairman of selectors Ted Dexter told the world Igglesden was the 14th-choice seamer. Australia v England - live! | Rob Smyth
  • Who can, without respect and admiration, contemplate the sturdy integrity, and simple zeal with which this rustic moralist enforced his laudable though mistaken notions? who can help reflecting with some surprise upon the fact, that before he ceased to apothegmatise and advise his young friend against having anything to do with the actors he was actually the first who put him seriously in the notion of going directly upon the stage as a public actor? The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810
  • Bass, for example, requires a tenant to put down a deposit of £1,000 before he can even contemplate arbitration.
  • The screening opinion had contemplated that a traffic impact assessment would be carried out.
  • This vintage expression, which gives the movie its title, is uttered by Ince when he contemplates the revels Hearst has planned for the producer's birthday celebrations aboard the mogul's splendiferous yacht, the Oneida.
  • On Monday, it warned mainland China not to contemplate coercion.
  • The book forced me to contemplate my own intentions in participating in a graduate education program that has a partnership with a predominantly Black school.
  • The intellectualist wants to stay and contemplate the burning bush, to draw it to size, to define its properties, to dogmatise its meaning and to describe the distance at which presence to or from it becomes either a mortal or a venial sin.
  • Jack went on vacation to contemplate his future.
  • Most were content to contemplate their deliverance, but some were more boisterous.
  • But he came gradually to see its viability and to contemplate ways of putting it into practice.
  • I'd love to report on the puddings - sickly-sweet baklava is a favourite of mine - but I was simply too full to even contemplate another course.
  • Spell after spell crashed down on the Dark Elves, the carnage was too awful to contemplate.
  • I can hardly believe I slept so well, no dreams, nightmares or visions to contemplate this morning.
  • Political correctness is everything: ‘Thou shalt not even contemplate chastising unpunishable classroom hoodlums.’
  • Yet most of us have already unconsciously surrendered to the more insidious aspects of modernity long before we even contemplate drawing our swords from their scabbards and inspecting them for rust.
  • 'Brecknel and Turner's' flamed and swealed in profusion on the table; while every now and then an expiring lamp on the sideboards or brackets proclaimed the unwonted splendour of the scene, and added a flavour to the repast not contemplated by the cook. Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour
  • I had contemplated trying to fix the wheel with some lubrication.
  • Originally VW contemplated closing the works for two or three months in order to train strike-breakers.
  • Before Mr Lawson's speech the markets had decided that the Government was unwilling to contemplate another increase.
  • Yet, Bush insists on an open-ended commitment in Iraq, as our armed forces get shot at while their Parliament dilly-dallies, and contemplates a long summer vacation. Archive 2007-05-01
  • We do not care to contemplate that which carries a deceased bond between it and consciousness: the indecipherable is thus ignored.
  • But now she was, and Greg, who often shared about what he called his terror runs, appeared to be planning one, the way some people contemplate a Berkshires getaway.
  • The outward-looking inquiry then asks whether personal property can be contemplated as a sub-category of the law of things and, more particularly, as the law of all things locatable in space, alienable, or vindicable in court.
  • It was contemplated from the very beginning that all the countries in the area, whether members of the Commonwealth or not, would eventually be invited to participate on equal terms in whatever plan could be devised. Canada and the Colombo Plan
  • As I contemplate the process of separation / individuation I may have feelings and sensations that I can not articulate.
  • Where the man could have disappeared to was a mystery on a road apparently without any offshoots, so we concluded he must have thought we contemplated doing him some bodily harm, and had either "bolted" or "clapp'd," as my brother described it, behind some rock or bush, in which case he must have felt relieved and perhaps amused when he heard us "trigging" past him on the road. From John O'Groats to Land's End
  • The old man, twisting the end of his long, raggedy beard, contemplates his order, and then takes out his change.
  • He was no more able to discuss tactics than he was able to contemplate murder. TREASON KEEP
  • This policy contemplates the establishment of a new right for private local television stations to negotiate with cable and satellite broadcasting distribution undertakings ( "BDU" s) a value for carriage of their signal ( "VFS"). BroadCaster Magazine : Headline News
  • These are either altogether superfluous, mere badges of ostentation and luxurious wealth, or they point to some fifth function not so much as contemplated by other universities, and, at present, absolutely and chimerically beyond their means of attainment. Memorials and Other Papers — Complete
  • To think that he should be actually in this great, silent penitentiary, a convict, waiting here beside this cheap iron bathtub, not very sweet or hygienic to contemplate, with this crackbrained criminal to watch over him! The Financier
  • her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate
  • Throughout his career, the profane would compete with the sacred when Alvin contemplated themes for ballets.
  • Revolutions are only contemplated by cadres with intense preferences: most workers in liberal democracies will not vote for a revolution.
  • As if the likes of Carlton Communications or Granada, the UK's largest advertising-funded broadcasters but minnows on the international stage, could even contemplate such a move.
  • Contemplate on one hand, the unenvying, the benevolent friend of mankind. Sermons on Prevalent Errors, and Vices and on Various Other Topics
  • It may sound simple but the implications of any fuel price hike are always too ghastly to contemplate.
  • Lifted up on this stately mound, whose top is fanned with air as light to breathe as nitrous oxide gas -- and bivouacked on its very ridge, (where nought on earth is seen in distance save the thousand treeless, bushless, weedless hills of grass and vivid green which all around me vanish into an infinity of blue and azure), stretched on our bears 'skins, my fellow-traveller, Mr. Wood, and myself, have laid and contemplated the splendid orrery of the heavens. Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians
  • How many will be able to start a family, or buy a house or go back to university for further study when they contemplate the implications?
  • There is plenty of such colourful metaphor in this book - it is one of the consolations as one contemplates the astonishing greed, vanity, chutzpah and arrogance of the CEO.
  • To him, perhaps, it has been given to listen to the voice of the ancient poet, heard as a far-off whisper; to breathe in forgotten gardens the perfume of long dead flowers; to contemplate the love of women whose beauty is all perished in the dust; to hearken to the sound of the harp and the sistra, to be the possessor of the riches of historical romance. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology
  • He had even contemplated suicide.
  • This, in my view, clearly contemplates the structure as a whole, as a single unit, and not the component parts of it.
  • It is a daymare to contemplate the horrors I might have to go through to see my kids if we got divorced.
  • I have never contemplated living abroad.
  • The capital costs of starting a sugar estate were so high by 1860 that only rich capitalists or companies could contemplate such a venture.
  • His wife, on the one side, in her pearlings and pudding-sleeves, put the last finishing touch to her holiday's apparel, while she contemplated a very handsome and good-humoured face in a broken mirror, raised upon the "bink" (the shelves on which the plates are disposed) for her special accommodation. The Bride of Lammermoor
  • While watching this video, I contemplated the "alleycat" phenomenon. Jumping Through Hoops: What Does Everyone Have Against Hubs?
  • It afforded a vista pleasant to contemplate.
  • Such prattle demonstrates an inability and indeed an unwillingness to contemplate the affects of combat on the victor as well as the vanquished.
  • If no blog-worthy events take place, the author may find themselves at a loss, and begins to contemplate, "If my life is not bloggable, I am in serious need of a life."
  • I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day. Chapter 10
  • They contemplated moving the highway to accommodate a possible railway switchyard.
  • She contemplates leaving for the sake of the kids.
  • The whole world is your paintbox, and nothing pleases you more than to contemplate exquisite, natural things.
  • It was a serene overlook off of the Blue Ridge Parkway I found while looking for a quiet place to contemplate my post-residency plans.
  • This means that even brute action is a form of contemplation, for even the most vulgar or base act has, at its base and as its cause, the impulse to contemplate the greater.
  • Nor does it contemplate the knock-on consequences for Labour ministers of attempting to implement their programme while rebuilding the governmental machine.
  • As I contemplate the process of separation / individuation I may have feelings and sensations that I can not articulate.
  • It was only when he contemplated college and looked for a major in accordion that he realized he had a problem. Spoleto Festival U.S.A.: The Nerd of the Instruments, Cool at Last - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
  • She blew a smoke ring and contemplated it as it hovered in the still air like a misty halo before dissipating.
  • If and when we move back to Devon (and every time I go there recently I seriously contemplate it) Ashburton is top of the list of places to buy a house.
  • After taking the hallucinogen, Dr. Martin put on an eye mask and headphones, and lay on a couch listening to classical music as he contemplated the universe.
  • Behind her, the security cops sported crooked grins while Mother contemplated Kaitlin with what could only be described as a malevolent smile. The Shattered Blue Line
  • They should be incarcerated for decades to contemplate the enormity of their crimes.
  • There, between two waters clear as crystal, through the open panels we were allowed to contemplate the beautiful bushes of brilliant coral and large blocks of rock clothed with a splendid fur of green variety of sites and landscapes along these sandbanks and algae and fuci. Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
  • The Memorandum contemplated joint custody with Evan having his primary residence with Ms Howey.
  • At that time, he cut a sorry figure, often looking tired and unshaven, and he told this paper that he had contemplated suicide.
  • Often she will be able to sleep with rising superstars and juvenile celebrities who will profess love but never contemplate marrying her.
  • As she contemplates her future, she'll attract her own traffic - headhunters, that is. WordPress.com News
  • It would argue a disproportionateness, a want of balance, in Desdemona, which Shakespeare does not appear to have in the least contemplated. '[ Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
  • Don't join the dots ... Of the stars, one alone can I contemplate without pain.
  • Although I know that every floss will work well enough, I still can't help but contemplate the pros and cons of waxed versus unwaxed, spearmint versus wintermint.
  • For distraction I forced myself to contemplate my next entrepreneurial venture.
  • We have therefore the case contemplated in the second axiom, namely, of one term agreeing and the other disagreeing with the same third term; and we know that this can only give ground for a judgement of disagreement between the two terms themselves -- in other words, to a negative conclusion. Deductive Logic
  • Researchers Susan Lolle and Robert Pruitt encountered phenotypic traits not according with inheritance concepts derived from Mendel; leading them to contemplate whether the plants they were working with might revert to their grandparents 'allelic frequency. 2008 February - Telic Thoughts
  • I have elements in there that I've never even contemplated using before - stuff like indium, tantalum, ytterbium, and praseodymium.
  • The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate.
  • It was a terrible thing to contemplate: the wreck of her son's happiness, the Prussian disgraced and driven from their doors, the wife, too, thrust forth upon the street and her name ignominiously placarded on the walls, as had been threatened would be done with any woman who should dishonor herself with a The Downfall
  • He posed, attitudinized and vapored, so that the camp and the country were filled with stories of the wonderful coolness with which he contemplated his approaching fate. Andersonville
  • Downing Street publicly refused yesterday to contemplate defeat.
  • None could pierce the future; perhaps none dared to contemplate it: the wild rage of fanaticism and hate, friend grappling with friend, brother with brother, father with son; altars profaned, hearthstones made desolate; the robes of Justice herself bedrenched with murder. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863
  • All Miss Bird wanted to do was to contemplate the Falls in solitude, but that was difficult.
  • The Bower is biggit on the verra march line, 'she explained,' an 'the ben is ower on the Scots side whaur we intercommune,' and Meg, with her arms akimbo and her mouth on the grin, contemplated her enemy in scornful triumph. Border Ghost Stories
  • Moreover, in social terms he has had to bear a burden the others could not even remotely contemplate having to carry.
  • It's a real gem and a great place to sit and contemplate, with cliffs rising behind.
  • But others part of the brain, the insula, which has a role in the experience of pain, and the greater mesial prefrontal cortex became activated when the subjects contemplated selling one of their items. Boing Boing
  • ” And he contemplated her absorbed young face with a thrill of possessorship in which pride in his own masculine initiation was mingled with a tender reverence for her abysmal purity. I. Book I
  • As Karen and Cody mimed annoying kissy-faces back and forth at each other, Jesse seriously contemplated whether to leave them and make them find their own rides home.
  • A subtle meditation on mortality, it contrasts the ephemeral beauty of a young girl absorbed in her posy of flowers with the aged horse who quietly contemplates the viewer.
  • As you know, the block that's being contemplated is a block south of Wellesley between Bay and Yonge. A Great City and Its Institutions
  • It's despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped.
  • Indeed, modesty forbade him to contemplate too long what he could count a personal success.
  • But as we contemplate these bitter internecine struggles we should not be too unsympathetic or complacent.
  • Last Wednesday, the world paused awkwardly to contemplate the bizarre and skeevy news that conservative agit-proprieter James O'Keefe attempted to lure CNN reporter Abbie Boudreau onto a "floating pleasure palace" to finally, uhh ... prove something? 'It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia' Explains O'Keefe's Journalism
  • Scales will fall swiftly from people's eyes as they contemplate this piece of Jackbootism on the part of Gordon Brown and his henchpersons and they will recoil in distaste and revulsion from conduct which most associate not with the home of Parliamentary Democracy but with the likes of Soviet Russia, Castro's Cuba, Mugabe's Zimbabwe or Hitler's Germany. Archive 2008-11-30
  • Gladly will I bestir the deedy hands, everywhere behold where thou hast need of me; bepraise the rich pomp of thy splendour; pursue unwearied the lovely harmonies of thy skilled handicraft; gladly contemplate the thoughtful pace of thy mighty, radiant clock; explore the balance of the forces and the laws of the wondrous play of countless worlds and their seasons; but true to the Rampolli
  • He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple which is halved for pickling, or as you might divide an egg with a hair; and as he cut them one after another, he bade Apollo give the face and the half of the neck a turn in order that the man might contemplate the section of himself: he would thus learn a lesson of humility. The Symposium
  • It's the reason the Florida legislature could contemplate sending its own set of electors to Congress if it had lost in the Supreme Court.
  • By whichever measure one chooses, Russell, who contemplated many universes, is a great mind.
  • If, however, the fugitive is committed to prison, the Act contemplates that he may seek to challenge that warrant by habeas corpus proceedings.
  • An aerosol spray can of air freshener in the woods was too absurd to contemplate. FOLLY

Report a problem

Please indicate a type of error

Additional information (optional):