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rumination

[ US /ˌɹumɪˈneɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. regurgitation of small amounts of food; seen in some infants after feeding
  2. (of ruminants) chewing (the cud)
    ruminants have remarkable powers of rumination
  3. 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.
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