contemplate Examples

[ˈkɑn.təm.ˌpleɪt]

Examples of contemplate in a Sentence

Examples of contemplate
1. Statesmen sometimes need some whoopingly big lies to justify to themselves and their followers actions which they contemplate.
2. That being the case, we should naturally choose to contemplate mu from morning to night, forgetting everything.
Examples of contemplates
1. The critic scrutinizes a sculpture with an eye to writing a review; the gallery-goer contemplates it for sheer enjoyment.
Examples of contemplated
1. The two Farmer Laborites, Shipstead and Johnson of Minnesota, did not attend, as they had contemplated doing, for fear such action might be misinterpreted in Minnesota.
2. Frequently have I been tempted to compose for him epistles of nearly Herzogian sweep, have even seriously contemplated what I imposed upon cruelhearted adults in my small-town Mississippi childhood: gift-wrapped fresh cow manure or dead rats or possums deposited on their front porches in the yuletide.
3. Arios neat-handedly put finishing touches on taping up the unconscious engineer's hands, mouth, and eyelids while Mr. Scott lovingly removed the hatch cover and contemplated the main power-conversion stem of the Savasci's engines.
Examples of contemplating
1. “How can one be so fat and have cold feet?” he muses, contemplating his own stodgy and unwarmable extremities.
2. There was evil laughter coming from the villain's lair as he was contemplating how he was going to defeat his heroic foe.
3. [ …] I am contemplating the possibility of being poor Fred in a world just life this one. The Haecceitist will suggest that I have in mind a qualitative duplicate of this world where the nonqualitative determinants of cross-identification somehow link me with the qualitative counterpart of Fred. But this distorts my thought: I thought not just that I might have lived Fred's life, but that I might have been Fred living Fred's life. [ …] I suggest that the possibility I have in mind is not a world that is like ours qualitatively but differs from ours Haecceitistically.