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.
But there are still issues worth pondering. Times, Sunday Times
That didn't stop him lying awake on Monday and Tuesday night pondering the imponderables.
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He invested in an essentially Russian company at a time when other big minerals groups were pondering massive takeovers. Times, Sunday Times
Of course, all my ponderings are purely academic, what with my confirmed bachelor status.
He lay down on his pallet still pondering, but the exhaustion from his long vigil the previous day swept him off almost at once into a dreamless, leaden sleep.
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Amid these life-retrospective ponderings blooms a story of young love and lust.
Time has come for introspection by them who owe allegiance to Advanian hinduism, and pondering by political population, that what the country has achieved till date by destabilising the settled communal harmony of this country by hurting the sentiment of a community – and more so, in this sub-continent, where helpless hindus have been suffering continuously since Dec 1992 in the name of retaliations. -- from bijan ghosh date 5 March 2009 14:44 subject india New Lawyers Chambers Supreme Court Buildings New Delhi 110 001 1:20 PM Archive 2009-03-01
The young couple are pondering moving their house.
The earlier versions are famously protracted and meditative, pondering unanswerable questions concerning life, death and desire.
Let's begin pondering briefly a primitive barter economy where goods are traded for goods.
Their lawyers are said to be pondering the matter of copyright infringement at the moment.
We don't advise you pondering it too carefully at home. The Sun
He dismissed the observation, however, as unworthy a philologer and went to sleep pondering a new destruction for the knaves who held the Lombard tongue to be not East but West Germanic. The Collectors
I found myself constantly pondering the question: "How could anyone do these things?
I think I like her better when she's pondering out loud.
United are also pondering a £12m move for Bayern Munich midfielder Bastian Schweinsteiger, with their vastly wealthier rivals Manchester City and Chelsea likely to gazump any effort Alex Ferguson makes to secure the signature of the 26-year-old German international. Football transfer rumours: Liverpool to sign Johan Elmander?
The text as a whole has a power we may miss when pondering just particular passages or sections. Times, Sunday Times
While I was thus mutely pondering within myself, and recording my sorrowful complainings with my pen, it seemed to me that there appeared above my head a woman of a countenance exceeding venerable. Consolation of Philosophy
It finally reads and sounds good enough to stop pondering the alteration of either. btw, in my recording I pronounce Wissant "WESson" and Bruges "BREW jiz," as I believe once, across the Channel, their names were spoken. Enciclopedia dantesca, gen. ed. Umberto Bosco, 6 vols (Treccani, 1970-1976)
Pondering the nature of addiction, which he's flirted with and which now has Midge firmly in its icy grip, seeing its rather unaesthetic manifestation before him, he writes about tobacco, a product that "never improves, causes illness, and makes people unhappy. William Bradley: Mad Men : Nothing Like a Little Lemonade to Rinse the Smoke From One's Eyes
Australia are also pondering at least one unenforced change. Times, Sunday Times
We stare back in distress, pondering the prospect of spending the better part of two hours at a clamorous pre-teen boys' party.
When there are so many brand names and logos, you startcynically pondering the hypocrisy of the filmmakers, who are both slamming but also likely profiting from this blatant placement.
After pondering the philosophical elements of our individual upbringings, we discovered that both of us had been brought up in the United Church.
He turned slowly, ponderingly, accepting again the isolation. Lady Chatterley's Lover
We don't advise you pondering it too carefully at home. The Sun
I found myself constantly pondering the question: "How could anyone do these things?
February 12th, 2009 at 2: 06 pm cube, if any pondering is going on on your first question, that hypothetical economist is incompetent because ANY government spending is a stimulus. Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Economics
It is curious to consider — and the thought occurred to me this day, when I was out for a stroll pondering over the duties of this evening, which even then were looming in the distance, but not quite so far off as I could wish — I found it very curious to consider that though the newsman must be allowed to be a very unpicturesque rendering of Speeches: Literary and Social
They all were silent for a moment pondering this bit of cosmic coincidence.
There have been calls for me to bring in the army, George," he said ponderingly. Country of the Blind
The English traveler Charles Perry, in an attempt to describe his visit to Sa'dabad, ended up giving only a detailed account of one building, pondering whether to call it a kiosk or a seraglio.
'But what for hearken to the havers o' a dottled auld wife? 'he said to himself, pondering as he walked home. Robert Falconer
The youth was dazed and knew not whither he should wend, but after a few days as he sat pondering his case, he caught sight of the sails of a ship in the middlemost of the main, as it were a star in the sky; and his heart clave to it, so haply his deliverance might be therein. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Pondering this would occupy a quarter of an hour, if not more.
It's like, you're pondering what kind of business to start, and as you walk pass six struggling, unpatronized hair salons all lined up in a row, you think, I know! Cutting My Own Bangs
We ended by pondering a thorny question: When should a nation fight against aggression?
Her pondering presumes a regal power, a lingering vestige of an era when sovereignty resided not in the people but in the monarch.
But there are still issues worth pondering. Times, Sunday Times
And he took the hollow lyre and laid it in his sacred cradle, and sprang from the sweet-smelling hall to a watch-place, pondering sheer trickery in his heart — deeds such as knavish folk pursue in the dark night-time; for he longed to taste flesh. Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
He responded by closeting himself in the former ladies' cabin of the steamer Magnolia while he poured over maps pondering the situation.
I found myself constantly pondering the question: "How could anyone do these things?
I suppose if you're the sort who "outgrew" pondering the meaning of life, Colin Wilson is a perfect target for your disdain. A nasty business ...
Pondering this commentary will stiffen the spine of the faithful for preaching, teaching, interpretation and life in the world.
Add to all this that this administration seems to tiptoe around itself, and you get a tentative, ponderingly slow, left-leaning, promise making, but result-deficient reality. B.D. Gallof: Remember, Remember The 3rd Of November
There is a subtle message to the reader who sits pondering the meaning of the titles.
Perhaps his distaste is not about the amount of metaphysical pondering now verse then, but rather its alignment with his personal metaphysics. A Trend?
I'm sure that like me you will leave the cinema pondering the moral dilemmas the characters face and wondering how you would act facing such situations.
I walked on along the mountain-ridge staying my steps with the staff and pondering the case of the two youths, when behold, a serpent came forth from under the mountain, with a man in her95 jaws, whom she had swallowed even to below his navel, and he was crying out and saying, “Whoso delivereth me, Allah will deliver him from all adversity!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Cycling more casually, she found a stone bench by the side of the road, and there she dismounted to rest while pondering what course her life would take now.
Mainstream conservatives are pondering which single candidate they will unite behind to beat Buchanan.
Fromm's conception of freedom is formed on the base of pondering upon the irrational behavior of human beings and reflecting on the people's morbidness and spirit of contemporary western society.
I couldn't think offhand of a creative use for this thing, a non-business use, but maybe with some pondering…
The first effect of this confession on Dick Marvin was depressing, but after pondering it a minute he laughed and recalled the ironical old rhyme: The Apples of Hesperides, Kansas
But, Dr. Vincent said, the university is pondering whether the dorm's name blemishes the school's reputation and compromises the public trust. Dorm That Honors Klansman Sparks Debate
As I looked at them ponderingly, a frog far in the back of the cave gave a discordant, echoing croak, which started the sulky and suspicious black boy who attended me into an abrupt exclamation of semi-fright; while a scrub fowl, scratching for its living overhead, dislodged a chip of granite which went clicking down the rocks. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
He dismissed the observation, however, as unworthy a philologer and went to sleep pondering a new destruction for the knaves who held the Lombard tongue to be not East but West Germanic. The Collectors
Arguably, the shower is an important workspace, as I do a lot of plotting and pondering in there. Tim’s Sunday Quickie «
Anyhow, this is how it was pretty much written, but I started pondering on whether it was really building the way I wanted it to, and ended up trying out some fancy malarkey with verse lyrics for Puck to sing in countermelody to the Regulars verses. Archive 2009-10-01
Her husband was a tall, long-featured man, with a brown beard; he had a pondering regard; and was, it must be added, usually kind and tolerant to her.
We don't advise you pondering it too carefully at home. The Sun
But he is still pondering his two wingers and main frontman. The Sun
He lay on his back in the Mater Hospital for weeks on end fighting the disease and pondering the future.
Jen stood still for a moment pondering whether or not she should concur with his impulsive decision.
Paleoglot: Pondering on the phrase 'capite velato' Pondering on the phrase 'capite velato'
Jake began pondering on what he should do, when suddenly an idea struck him.
As for Ed Gillespie and his famous charge of sexism and elitism, I don't think serious conservatives believe Ed is up nights pondering whiffs and emanations of class tension and gender bias in modern America.
But he is still pondering his two wingers and main frontman. The Sun
He is still pondering ways to conjure up the money. Times, Sunday Times
Given the proliferation of power-assisted bicycles, it's worth pondering at what point one is simply better off just purchasing a motorcycle or scooter. Archive 2010-07-01
He is still pondering ways to conjure up the money. Times, Sunday Times
I might eavesdrop on two graying guys who are debating the merits of symphony conductors in various cities, or try to get a glimpse of the book the dreadlocked poet-type is pondering at the next table.
Alan McManus's defeat to Marco Fu has left the Scotsman pondering how to fill the summer months.
Pondering the "Magical Thinking" post, and some of the comments I received about it, I remembered asking my friend to explain holography to me. The Intricacies of Holograms
Shown to tables, they open their menus, pondering beef versus chicken enchiladas, or maybe tacos al carbon.
As with relics or ancient runes, it's all about touching, reading, pondering, examining.
One day, as I sat thus, pondering my case and bethinking me how I should do, when my bread and water should be exhausted, behold, the stone that covered the opening was suddenly rolled away and the light streamed down upon me. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
I hear Ricky is pondering a run for Pres. in 2012. Think Progress » Health Insurers’ Duplicitous Campaign Confirmed: Industry Covertly Gave Millions To Fund Anti-Reform Ads
He is no less acerbic when pondering under what extraordinary circumstances Trevor Sinclair came to be picked for the England football team, an animadversion with which all right-thinking fans concur.
Walking and spin sessions (bike on trainer in my studio) are great for pondering, though. Interview with String-of-10 TWO First Place Winner: Ann Pino
He had been pondering his next move all the academic day, drifting off into daydreams instead of paying attention in class.
Then the Lord sat silent, and seemed to be pondering: at last he said, as if to himself: "Yet there is one thing: many a blencher can sing of battle; and it hath been seen, that a fair body of a man is whiles soft amidst the hard hand-play. The Well at the World's End: a tale
But before jumping to that conclusion it is worth pondering whether the weed is more resistant to husbandry practice rather than the herbicide.
His behaviour is despicable and I am still pondering whether to publish. The Sun
Please. after confab this weekend pondering black/blackfoot history. also: traditionalism is hard. Oh, wow. free verse dinocorns.
Last year it was decided after much careful pondering that after the grand display in spring of white viridiflora tulips the quadrants surrounding the center quatrefoil were just plain blah. Finial Fun In The Knot Garden « Fairegarden
The subject was dismissed, and although their words floated to interesting topics, no deep feeling could be experienced by either, for each had become insphered and separate; one pondering, despite her efforts to the contrary, upon the strange request; the other thinking how strangely fate had again approximated lives which, in her present state, she could only see, must be kept apart. Dawn
I am pondering how to respond.
No word said she, but silently made the gaze of Naoise follow her own, even as he held a golden chessman in his hand, pondering a move. A Book of Myths
Illinois is pondering legislation that would require pretrial reliability hearings before prosecutors could use jailhouse informants as witnesses.
Parlabane looked down ponderingly at him for a moment, then nodded himself. Boiling a Frog
Interestingly, there was a whole lot of time - and a whole lot of miles - spent individually pondering just what it is that one really needs in a minivan - like great seats.
Do we really need lots of people sitting around pondering on research topics that are of little benefit to man or beast?
But injury, poor form and a managerial change have left him pondering his future. Times, Sunday Times
After a decent interval of licking our wounds and pondering what might have been and where we went wrong, we need to spit out our despair and return - united - to battling those who have for the moment outmaneuvered us.
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 fire side. Tales of a Traveller
And he took the hollow lyre and laid it in his sacred cradle, and sprang from the sweet-smelling hall to a watch-place, pondering sheer trickery in his heart -- deeds such as knavish folk pursue in the dark night-time; for he longed to taste flesh. Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica
I found myself constantly pondering the question: "How could anyone do these things?
Ponderingfool, my huzzy can move and he would if I wanted us to. My dissertation is DONE! Now what?
They are pondering whether the money could be better used elsewhere.
In his novel 1984, George Orwell describes the hardship and puzzle of people in pursuing truth and pondering the future under the reign of totalitarianism.
The dream is not a dream, the difference between the two usually have a very worth pondering the distance.
Once, such ideas were the stuff of futurist ponderings published in popular science and mechanics magazines.
Some fine speech you were pondering, some knotty question, some viewy doctrine - Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2
The secretary lay awake all night pondering whether to leave or stay.
Pondering these questions will help us to evaluate its true benefits and costs.
They have long conversations, pondering the twists of fate that separate success from failure.
But there are still clues about the shooting that don't add up in Elliot's mind, and these get a brief pondering while Nathan overconfidently begins to take on more than the team can handle. The Trades
While he was pondering what could have brought this into the merciless desert, a man drew near who was dressed like a faqir, and had bare head and feet, but walked with the free carriage of a person of rank. The Brown Fairy Book
The bishop of the diocese is now pondering whether to reconsecrate the site after news of what happened there emerged.
Further pondering was interrupted by a shriek from the inside that let it be known the quarrel over trinkets was still happening.
Vivi couldn't see how anything could go wrong, and never thought of the long-term tenacity of the Director, who was already pondering wearisome sporadic whorl-checks of white-starred bays for years to come. The Elvis Latte
She seemed unperturbed, even uninvolved, as if pondering Australia's decision to come off for bad light.
I would have loved an extra chapter or two with him delving through recent areas such as "interpersonal neuropsychology" to look at what is involved in the creation of self and perception, both in childhood when we start wondering about the universe and in older age when we have the luxury of pondering our own fuzzy path through life. Reader reviews of You Are Here by Christopher Potter.
Probably the most effort that went into this tediously unfunny sequel is pondering how much money they were going to make.
I found myself constantly pondering the question: "How could anyone do these things?
There was a deep frown on his face when he was pondering a problem.
If your sweat is within the normal range, you aren't likely heading for a Botox treatment, but you may still be pondering which is the right antiperspirant / deodorant for you.
But there are still issues worth pondering. Times, Sunday Times
He may also be pondering moving overseas or buying rivals. Times, Sunday Times
In their classic efforts to answer this question, 5th-century Greek philosophers follow Homer in pondering how culture and nature (in Greek, nomos and phusis) relate to each other as they converge in human identity. Claremont.org
The teen heartthrob is rumored to be concerned about how his three siblings — Daniel, 15, Melissa, 13, and Amber, 10, — are handling the split and is pondering taking a break from recording to focus on helping his family heal. “American Idol ‘Fixed,’” Says David Archuleta Mom Lupe Archuleta
The dream is not a dream, the difference between the two usually have a very worth pondering the distance.
I am left pondering the stupidity of this juxtaposition.
The text as a whole has a power we may miss when pondering just particular passages or sections. Times, Sunday Times
Still pondering the situation, Kristin replaced the soup ladle and followed Brittney and Chelsea to the salad bar.
George paused, pondering how to phrase his next words.
In the land of Nebbia, the mistiest part of Etruria, it was the month of Agnosto, when anything can happen, and Melliflua was pondering what to do about the fauns. Melliflua and the Fauns
I found myself constantly pondering the question: "How could anyone do these things?
She was pondering that, when the pretty woman who had taken her earbob sidled up to Wusamequin. Spirited
The dream is not a dream, the difference between the two usually have a very worth pondering the distance.
Fromm's conception of freedom is formed on the base of pondering upon the irrational behavior of human beings and reflecting on the people's morbidness and spirit of contemporary western society.
From the time he took up his headquarters on the hill at Cassel, he became “a desk man”; it was no longer his function to execute orders; thenceforth he had the far more trying duty of issuing orders ” a truly awful responsibility and one which demands much solitude, much soul-searching as well as map-pondering and other weighing of the ponderable which is so easily off-set by the imponderable, the unguessable. Foch the Man
Had Frank Furedi been pondering how to handle the situation he would not have had to look far for advice.
Frederick Travers turned back to the desk, as if to put the letters away, changed his mind, and slowly and ponderingly reread them. BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN
Hereupon I took to an examination of my fetters, link by link, but finding them mighty secure, laid me down as comfortably as they would allow and fell to pondering my desperate situation, and seeing no way out herefrom Martin Conisby's Vengeance
Pops pauses, pondering my question, while my interrogating eyes lock onto a weary mole domiciled between his eyebrows.
The text as a whole has a power we may miss when pondering just particular passages or sections. Times, Sunday Times
However, I've also been pondering today on the possibility that the voicing here also involves laryngealization aka creaky voicing1. Precising on a new rule to explain Pre-IE word-final voicing
Believe it or not they don't just sit indoors, pondering life and pausing occasionally to smell a rose.
I found myself constantly pondering the question: "How could anyone do these things?
Today's Ruby left me pondering just how many people does it take to hang one piece of wallpaper?
But injury, poor form and a managerial change have left him pondering his future. Times, Sunday Times
Mark, your musings (tangental though they may be) reminded me of a question that I've been pondering for a long time: Why exactly do companies so frequently sit on IP and products that they can release at very little expense to themselves? The Tick Petition, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The secretary lay awake all night pondering whether to leave or stay.
I'm continually pondering how to improve the team.
We were pondering just that question in September 1998 while relaxing beneath the windblown divi-divi trees in Aruba.
The more time you put into pondering what you want, the better off you'll be this week.
Gloucester's lack of sight caused him to believe Edmund was the good son and prevented him from pondering the idea of Edmund being after his earldom.
And if he is pondering this career move, it is unlikely to be the first time.
She even forgot about Rab, pondering between the river and the gas oven.
So, now we're pondering things we can do with the film now that it's made.
For once the child was quiescent as if it were asleep, or pondering upon some deep enigma.
After a decent interval of licking our wounds and pondering what might have been and where we went wrong, we need to spit out our despair and return - united - to battling those who have for the moment outmaneuvered us.
I was pondering these increasingly likely eventualities when the train pulled into the last stop, the doors opened and I fell out onto the platform with my unchanged rucksack.
I like the Buddhist view on this – that wasting the present for pondering teh unknowable is a waste of the present. Think Progress » VIDEO: Powell Says U.S. Went Into Iraq Without Enough Troops
I hardly spend time contemplating the daphnia I carelessly tossed into the compost today, and the daphnia left certainly do not spend any time pondering me. Late November
We were left pondering how to spark activism in a largely secular country. Times, Sunday Times
Now her lyrics and other ponderings fill up her gloriously uncensored blog. Times, Sunday Times
Before we begin, a few lines from Carlo Ritorni's Comments on the life and choreodramatic works of Salvatore Vigano, and on choreography and coryphées held in the Library of the Paris Opera, are worth pondering.
It was a snatch from a popular chorus, something he had heard sounding all over the town of Pisa one April night, one of the first bland and summer-like nights of the year, that Flavian had chosen for the refrain of a poem he was then pondering -- the Pervigilium Veneris -- the vigil, or "nocturn," of Marius the Epicurean — Volume 1
He is still pondering ways to conjure up the money. Times, Sunday Times
You are a tough crowd – hey, be gentle with me I’m lagged and pondering a costume – Mmmmm thin rimmed racing wheel eh, well, that should be easier to manage than a bloody mountain bike wheel anyway! [Repeat to fade] | clusterflock
The dream is not a dream, the difference between the two usually have a very worth pondering the distance.
Anchises 'son stood still, and ponderingly stayed his footsteps, pitying at heart their cruel lot. The Aeneid of Virgil
The future of the LCS is not in pondering value to the "poor and ignorant" Mexican community. The Lake Chapala Society
But injury, poor form and a managerial change have left him pondering his future. Times, Sunday Times
He who ponderingly, of a purified spirit, loses himself in the meditation of Atman, unexpressable by words is his blissfulness of his heart. Siddhartha
But he is still pondering his two wingers and main frontman. The Sun
The more time you put into pondering what you want, the better off you'll be this week.
I found myself constantly pondering the question: "How could anyone do these things?
Slowly she got behind him, glad that he was too busy pondering his conscience and enjoying the ocean to notice her.
Nor does Harris spend any time pondering, for instance, the infanticidal teachings of prominent philosophers and ethicists (such as Princeton's Peter Singer) who share Harris’ ‘rational’ utilitarian perspective.
In one of the vessels behind him, as he mused, a seaman noiselessly thrust his head out at a companion to look the hour upon the town's clock, and the boy, pale, fair-haired, pondering, with eyes upon the shrouds of a gabbart, forced himself by his stillness and inaction upon the man's notice. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure
But, as I sat pondering my case and boiling like cauldron over fire, behold, my host came back, accompanied by a porter loaded with bread and meat and new cooking-pots and gear and a new jar and new gugglets and other needfuls. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The dream is not a dream, the difference between the two usually have a very worth pondering the distance.
He may also be pondering moving overseas or buying rivals. Times, Sunday Times
The university board is still pondering over the matter.
Clair and Misha dabble their feet in the swimming pool, pondering last night's debate.
Staring at the endless universe, looking at the twinkling stars and pondering the infinitesimally tiny atom of matter or the gene that makes us up, helps to put issues of religion in true perspective.
Einstein wished never to waste one valuable moment of thought time pondering what suit to wear. Matthew Yglesias » Why Choose?

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