[
US
/ˌɹumɪˈneɪʃən/
]
NOUN
- regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding
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(of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
ruminants have remarkable powers of rumination - a calm, lengthy, intent consideration
How To Use rumination In A Sentence
- Also, rabbits and hares practise refection, which is essentially the same principle as rumination, and does indeed ‘raise up what has been swallowed’.
- These ruminations are chased from my mind like dustballs when the band takes the stage to the deafening approval of their awaiting minions.
- Two more telephone calls, both from motorway service station call boxes, cut short Marianne's rumination. OUT OF THE ASHES
- A sustained note of brooding rumination hovers over most of the disc.
- Saliva secretion in ruminants is continuous but increases with eating and rumination.
- Derek Jarman's Caravaggio presents itself as a loose, poeticized biography of the famed Baroque painter Michelangelo de Caravaggio, but in fact Jarman appears to be using his subject as a gateway into ruminations on art, love, violence and religion. Caravaggio
- It exists on a continuum with her other work in its carefully constructed ruminations on love bathed in her soaring contralto.
- Its memory refuses to diminish and it demands rumination.
- Sadly, the record is nothing more than a mealy-mouthed rumination on Madonna's own superstardom.
- Of course it also got her started on her infrequent ruminations that we need to move so we can have another room.