CONTEMPLATE in a Sentence
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169 example sentences for CONTEMPLATE, such as:
1. Martin is a quiet, contemplative sort of chap.
2. It is all over with me when I contemplate you.
3. To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act.
4. She remained absorbed in ecstatic contemplation.
5. You're too young to be contemplating retirement.
2. It is all over with me when I contemplate you.
3. To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act.
4. She remained absorbed in ecstatic contemplation.
5. You're too young to be contemplating retirement.
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Meanings and Examples of CONTEMPLATE
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contemplate
v. consider as a possibility
v. look at thoughtfully; observe deep in thought
Classic Sentence: (154 in 11 pages)
1 I did not, like him, attempt a critical knowledge of their dialects, for I did not contemplate making any other use of them than temporary amusement.
2 From the tortures of my own heart, I turned to contemplate the deep and voiceless grief of my Elizabeth.
3 For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers.
4 It is truly painful to contemplate mankind in such an aspect, Master Copperfield, but our reception was, decidedly, cool.
5 The duty done, and act of reparation performed, which can alone enable me to contemplate my fellow mortal, I shall be known no more.
6 I could think of the past now, gravely, but not bitterly; and could contemplate the future in a brave spirit.
7 Alexey Alexandrovitch could not without horror contemplate the idea of a pistol aimed at himself, and had never made use of any weapon in his life.
8 Jean Valjean rested his elbow on the knob at the head of the bed, and his brow on his hand, and began to contemplate the motionless body of Fantine, which lay extended there.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IV—AUTHORITY REASSERTS ITS RIGHTS
9 She shut herself up, which her rule allowed her to do, and hid herself, every time that she desired to contemplate it.
10 To contemplate is to labor, to think is to act.
11 In the meanwhile, love and suffer, hope and contemplate.
12 Everywhere upon it we have the right of light, we contemplate its beauties, we lay bare its defects.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV—THE TWO DUTIES: TO WATCH AND TO HOPE
13 It is all over with me when I contemplate you.
14 There was an orgy of grabbing and over all there was a cold cynicism about open theft in high places that was chilling to contemplate.
15 Most fearful they are to contemplate, the expenses of this entertainment.
Example Sentence:
1 He used to contemplate the problem from all sides.
2 The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate.
3 For a time he contemplated a career as an army medical doctor.
4 The government has contemplated reforming the entire tax system.
5 The doctor contemplated the difficult operation he had to perform.
6 You're too young to be contemplating retirement.
7 He went on to intimate that he was indeed contemplating a shake-up of the company.
8 He stood there contemplating the stars in the sky.
9 The organization has accused the Norwegian government of endangering a rare area of the Arctic sea by contemplating oil exploration there.
10 Each morning the priest spent an hour in quiet contemplation.
11 She remained absorbed in ecstatic contemplation.
12 She was lost in contemplation of the scene in front of her.
13 I think my psyche is a contradictory mixture of adventurism and contemplative caution.
14 Withdrawing from the world, Thomas Merton joined a contemplative religious order and adopted the monastic life.
15 Martin is a quiet, contemplative sort of chap.