How to Use contemplate in a Sentence

contemplate

verb

• I'd like some time to just sit and contemplate.
• He contemplated the meaning of the poem for a long time.
• She stood and quietly contemplated the scene that lay before her.
• But the questions behind them are always there and worth contemplating.
  — Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge, 4 Dec. 2024
• But of course, no one comes to Symphony Hall in order to contemplate it from the sidewalk.
  — Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 6 May 2022
• First of all, how well suited Basquiat’s work is to our picture first, contemplate later—if ever—moment.
  — Marley Marius, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2022
• Radin said the pandemic had forced him to slow down and look around — to contemplate, for example, its vegetation.
  — Jireh Deng, Los Angeles Times, 14 Apr. 2022
• Will’s birthday, but his mother visits, which causes tension; the adults contemplate telling Will about his father.
  — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2022
• Children contemplate suicide far more often than parents may realize.
  — Andrew Solomon, The New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2022
• The machine learning algorithm would use this data to then make predictions about whether someone was contemplating suicide.
  — Elizabeth B. Kim, The Enquirer, 27 Nov. 2024
• Shapiro said Jester often raised issues other trustees did not contemplate during a discussion, such as affordable housing.
  — Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 22 Mar. 2022
• And even for the small-screen devout, a 10-part adaptation of Mario Puzo’s bestselling book is almost too dreadful to contemplate.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Apr. 2022
• Such periods create much fear among investors, and some seriously contemplate selling out of everything to avoid further losses.
  — Raul Elizalde, Forbes, 6 May 2022
• But uncertainty persists as eight returning players contemplate their futures.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 6 Apr. 2022
• For example, participants asked to plan their course load showed depleted self-control as compared to others who were asked merely to contemplate undergrad classes.
  — Lila Thulin, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 May 2022
• At the time, the singer was at the end of a tour and contemplated going to the event.
  — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• Few players have the skills to even contemplate such a goal, let alone the drive to achieve it.
  — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 21 Oct. 2020
• That is a cue for the rest of us to start to look forward, and contemplate what comes next.
  — Joel Mathis, TheWeek, 24 Nov. 2020
• And that gives me a great deal of pleasure to contemplate that.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• Now, though, golf may be forced to contemplate turning the page from the Tiger era.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• The Spurs boarded a flight home to contemplate what’s next.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 19 May 2021
• Stay tuned to see what the denizens of late night are able to do with a little more time to contemplate.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 12 Aug. 2020
• There is no time to sit back and contemplate even for a moment.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• That may still be too painful for a lot of Minnesotans to contemplate.
  — Patrick Condon, Star Tribune, 12 Sep. 2020
• The first two episodes of The Acolyte showcase the Jedi’s hubris and their failure to even contemplate the return of the Sith as a threat.
  — Jack Francis, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• The most compelling moments are the bursts of archival footage where the younger Stones contemplate their longevity.
  — Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 9 Mar. 2024
• In place of the viaduct, the city has been contemplating larger parking lots.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• The silence alone in this vast scene opens the heart to contemplating such things as life throughout the universe.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
• The move to contemplate housing foreign workers in cruise ships comes with a fair bit of irony.
  — Philip Heijmans, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• The policy does not contemplate that an anesthesia code may apply to vastly different surgical procedures with corresponding wide variations in surgical times.
  — Emma Marsden, Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024