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pondering

[ US /ˈpɑndɝɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /pˈɒndəɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. deeply or seriously thoughtful
    Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the `Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man

How To Use pondering In A Sentence

  • I spotted Adrian later in the afternoon staring at the distant tree line with a look of pondering in his eyes.
  • The delectable little Dutch songs with which she used to dulcify the house grew less and less frequent, and she would forget her sewing and look wistfully in her father's face as he sat pondering by the fireside. Tales of a Traveller
  • Ian went away, pondering on my replies - but one thing was certain: major changes were in prospect.
  • Pondering on how this was possible, Abrahams asks, ‘Where did he get this sense of the inviolability of his own person, of his own mind?’
  • He may also be pondering moving overseas or buying rivals. Times, Sunday Times
  • Pondering the wisdom of basing a key joke on an obscure music reference that most people won't understand, I wander back downstairs to the lounge.
  • New York was left pondering whether to install a more modest moving sidewalk between Times Square and Grand Central Station.
  • I circled my original idea pondering the elasticity of fiction and the nature of narratology.
  • Mr. Pike looked at me ponderingly, and waited until the Elsinore had fairly righted for an instant ere he took his departure down the hall. CHAPTER XXIX
  • The dream is not a dream, the difference between the two usually have a very worth pondering the distance.
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