How To Use Ruminate In A Sentence
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So that's how they miscall hooch down in this country," ruminated
The Plunderer
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How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate? —
Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none
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As I walked up Gracechurch Street from Monument that morning I had a quiet ruminate on what I thought I really was doing.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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The cow needs a balance of physical ingredients in her rumen to get her to ruminate, to slow down the flow of food through the stomach and develop rumen wall muscle tone.
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Sir Richard didn't drive very fast and I had time to ruminate as I drove along.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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I need to cogitate and ruminate on it a bit more before the official electoral prediction.
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‘There are at least some well – disposed men in the world,’ ruminated the misanthropical Dumps, as he proceeded towards his destination.
Sketches by Boz
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He was happy to have some spare time to ruminate on the case.
WIDOW'S END
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She ruminated for weeks about whether to tell him or not.
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He ruminates, at one point, that maybe awakened men and women of old were copied by students and initiates observing this movement in the hope that it would be beneficial or move them towards the ‘goal’.
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She ruminated for weeks about whether to tell him or not.
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Melancholic depressives may also ruminate over the same thoughts and experiences, and feel excessive guilt.
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He often ruminated over whether he was a tenor or a baritone, the upper register of his voice being naturally weaker than the lower.
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There are some girls who ruminate a lot on their feelings is actually one of the big risk factors for depression.
Archive 2009-11-01
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MCINTYRE: In the memo, Rumsfeld ruminated about, but stopped short of recommending, some radical ideas, which he called illustrative options, such as having U.S. troops only patrol where they are welcome and withholding aid from violent areas of Iraq, the kind of tough-love approach advocated by some of Rumsfeld's political adversaries.
CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006
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In his early years, Caruso often ruminated over whether he was a tenor or a baritone, the upper register of his voice being naturally weaker than the lower.
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To shilly-shally about something, not do something, ruminate over it, finally decide to take the plunge--and by then it's too late.
Hitchhiker in the rain
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Though not hermits or recluses, they do enjoy their own space to ruminate about what makes the world go round not to mention what makes people tick.
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The Pandavas, the sons of King Pandu, won the battle but lost the war that shattered the world they knew only to ruminate the rest of their lives in the emptiness of what they had won.
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He was happy to have some spare time to ruminate on the case.
WIDOW'S END
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Sir Richard didn't drive very fast and I had time to ruminate as I drove along.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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Consider and reconsider and think and ponder and ruminate and cogitate all you will - Lady Josephine - but my convictions remain the same.
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I'll be copying your reply with paper and pencil so that I can "ruminate" on it further.
The Roar - Your Sports Opinion
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They ruminated in train stations and on buses; they cogitated in hotels as they clocked up visa charges; but they could reassure themselves that they weren't plummeting from the sky, swatted down by ash from the great cloud of the world's most unpronounceable volcano, Eyjafjallajokull.
Not-So-Risky Business
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The tea flows even today, poured hot and sweet into stainless-steel tumblers as manna after a rigorous climb. and it afforded us time to ruminate about the incongruities of the temple.
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Sir Richard didn't drive very fast and I had time to ruminate as I drove along.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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It is worth while to ruminate over his remarks.
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Rather than show my disdain outright and attach my friend's moral shortcomings, I started to ruminate a more edifying scheme.
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The whole thing -- and this is something I'll have to ruminate on for some time if I'm to fully comprehend it -- when I look at it from certain angles seems way too convoluted to seem plausible.
Archive 2010-07-01
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“Not to eat the pelican, nor the ossifrage, nor the griffin, nor the ixion, nor the eel, nor the hare, because the hare ruminates, and has not its foot cloven.”
A Philosophical Dictionary
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These animals do not ruminate (chew their cud), and their stomachs may be simple and one-chambered or have up to three chambers.
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They ruminate and use bacterial fermentation to help digest their food.
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Narrated by Kenneth Branagh, this beautifully animated short ruminates on the topics of isolation, ignorance, loss and apathy.
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Again the word "rumination" suggestions an oddly somatic association: to ruminate is to turn over in mind and mouth (as in: chewing the cud).
The Ordinary Sky: Wordsworth, Blanchot, and the Writing of Disaster
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As his tour bus rolls between dates in Minnesota and Illinois, Adé, whose given name is Sunday Adeniyi, ruminates over the phone on the differences between the upbeat music he plays called juju - a Nigerian word for magic - and the Afrobeat of the late Fela Kuti, his nation's other leading musical exponent.
Boston Phoenix - thePhoenix.com
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Their study, which included 1,300 men and women from ages 25 to 75, focused on a person's tendency to "ruminate," which they defined as getting stuck obsessing on negative emotions when trouble enters one's life.
Jim Gray Strikes Out Pete Rose
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Morton told him, and the old man ruminated a while, as he industriously cleaned, primed, and loaded his gun, while Morton waited, watching a long, plume-like line of smoke along the distant horizon, which he knew was from a Portland steamer.
Sara, a Princess
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In those early days, composure was something he threatened to lose as he ruminated on the challenges to be faced.
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He ruminated over various possibilities concerning his future.
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As I walked up Gracechurch Street from Monument that morning I had a quiet ruminate on what I thought I really was doing.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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A cow ruminates its food.
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Editorials and longer opinion pieces shout crudely at us, whereas a good essay should meditate, cogitate and ruminate in a solid literary style.
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cows ruminate
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If it was a shepherd, they would like to inquire "if he was not a _baa_ - keeper?" and the first would reply that he would have to "ruminate" on it before he made his answer; and the second would hope his reply would be "_spirited_; if not he had better be _punched_ up.
Brook Farm
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So, once again I come back to my lj after a bit of a lapse - but I just need somewhere to ruminate (ruminate is a word, yes?
Susannah's Journal
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He ruminated over various possibilities concerning his future.
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It is a short step from focusing on emotions to ruminating on them, and research has shown that people who ruminate have an increased chance of becoming depressed.
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What could be finer than sipping on a glass of wine as you ruminate over Jomon pottery or gagaku, or view a contemporary video?
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By the book's end, readers will find themselves as deeply entwined in the characters 'fates as Nunn is herself, and left to ruminate over a number of weighty debates as the tale weaves in double standards, double lives, emotional betrayal, murder, corruption and sexual deviance.
A Beautiful Place to Die: Summary and book reviews of A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn.
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When cases of dishonesty and those involving welshing on debts abound, it is worthwhile to ruminate on examples, such as the following.
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He was happy to have some spare time to ruminate on the case.
WIDOW'S END
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It has already been shown by the illustration, (p. 4,) that the paunch is the largest of the four cavities; but this is not the case with the stomach of the young calf, which, while it continues to suck, does not ruminate; in this case the _reed_, which is the true digestive cavity, is actually larger than the other three taken together.
Delineations of the Ox Tribe The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos.
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MCINTYRE: In the memo, Rumsfeld ruminated about but stopped short of recommending some radical ideas which he called illustrative options, such as having U.S. troops only patrol where they are welcome and withholding aid from violent areas of Iraq.
CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006
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Sir Richard didn't drive very fast and I had time to ruminate as I drove along.
THE GWEN JOHN SCULPTURE
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As people grow older, they begin to ruminate on the uncertainty of life.
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Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away.
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He ruminated on the terrible wastage that typified American life.
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As I walked up Gracechurch Street from Monument that morning I had a quiet ruminate on what I thought I really was doing.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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I obsess over it, agonize over it, ruminate over it.
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The cow began to ruminate after eating up grass.
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The cow needs a balance of physical ingredients in her rumen to get her to ruminate, to slow down the flow of food through the stomach and develop rumen wall muscle tone.
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He ruminated on Amie's decisions and behavior.
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As I walked up Gracechurch Street from Monument that morning I had a quiet ruminate on what I thought I really was doing.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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It is worth while to ruminate over his remarks.
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This of course allowed me to ruminate without distraction - and ruminate I did, ending any last chance for sleep.
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'Monsieur l'administrateur,' something about their habits; stick some labels into the sand with their Latin names, tell us how they manage to feather their nests, whether they 'ruminate' over their food -- and we shall have added to our store of knowledge at the seaside!
Normandy Picturesque
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They carry on the process to the greatest extent in winter, and stall-fed ruminants carry it on for about seven months in the year; beasts that go in herds, as they get their food out of doors, ruminate to a lesser degree and over a lesser period.
The History of Animals
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Though not hermits or recluses, they do enjoy their own space to ruminate about what makes the world go round not to mention what makes people tick.
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The man's stories may stick around in your head once you leave the soup kitchen, and you will ruminate on them, reviewing the details worriedly in circles.
Bernie Glassman: The Buddhist Way Of Being Present To Suffering
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He was happy to have some spare time to ruminate on the case.
WIDOW'S END
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Whilst I prevaricate, discuss: is it better to pontificate or to ruminate?
Existential Dilemma
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MCINTYRE: In the memo, Rumsfeld ruminated about, but stopped short of recommending some radical ideas, which he called illustrative options, such as having U.S. troops only patrol where they are welcome and withholding aid from violent areas of Iraq, the kind of tough-love approach advocated by some of Rumsfeld's political adversaries.
CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2006
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How she just now speaketh soberly, this drunken poetess! hath she perhaps overdrunk her drunkenness? hath she become overawake? doth she ruminate?
Thus Spake Zarathustra
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Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate.
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Rather than wrestle with these inquiries, Ashcroft simply admitted that he didn't know, stressing instead that there wasn't any time to ruminate on such trifles.
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GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE — In a small cafe in Gaza City, Amjad Shawa, the coordinator for the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), sips black coffee and ruminates on the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
Gazans Resist by Surviving
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He meditates on history, ponders sea life, ruminates on the land-water divide, and marvels at public housing, great bridges and giant electrical plants.
