How To Use Ruminative In A Sentence

He was uncharacteristically depressed and ruminative.
These speeches had to be rich in literary illusion and ruminative aphorism.
He plucked a stalk of dried finocchio and chewed it ruminatively, Huck Finn style. SIGNIFICANT OTHERS
These speeches had to be rich in literary illusion and ruminative aphorism.
Part of this was a reaction to the bumpiness of the adoption process, part of it just a by-product of who we are: overly ruminative, insecure people. Freud’s Blind Spot

I find the fourth the most ruminative of Chopin's ballades.
With the arena thus sanctified, we embarked on a roller-coaster ride through a Gaga theme park, with her ubiquitous hits "Telephone" and "Poker Face" along with songs from her upcoming "Born This Way" album, including the title tune and a ruminative piano interlude, "Speechless. A pyrotechnic bikini? Lady Gaga gives D.C.'s 'little monsters' what they want.
In particular, the ruminative musings on anthropocentricity are virtually absent.
His fields of dots grew through a ruminative, additive process that is integral to their emotional tenor.
Much human depression is cognitively generated by dejecting ruminative thought. Self-Efficacy - Albert Bandura
It's confessional and ruminative, yet also clipped, ‘teacherly’ and sibylline.
Such ruminative, nostalgic music voices a lament for the Slavonic folk music of a fading past and therefore calls for more resonance and pliancy. In performance: KenCen Chamber Players
He smiles and swirls the ice ruminatively around his almost empty glass.
The pace subsides as Zeitlin becomes more ruminative; Wilson employs a weirdly eerie wooden flute that he somehow uses against the face of his drumhead and Williams bows in a decidedly ominous way. Ralph A. Miriello: Denny Zeitlin With Buster Williams and Matt Wilson at the Kitano
There's a solemn, ruminative atmosphere, and it's strange to see so many people and hear so little noise.