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.
• At the time, the singer was at the end of a tour and contemplated going to the event.
  — Jessica Booth, Peoplemag, 30 Jan. 2024
• And that gives me a great deal of pleasure to contemplate that.
  — Steve Baltin, Forbes, 14 Aug. 2022
• There is no time to sit back and contemplate even for a moment.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 7 Sep. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The Spurs boarded a flight home to contemplate what’s next.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 19 May 2021
• That may still be too painful for a lot of Minnesotans to contemplate.
  — Patrick Condon, Star Tribune, 12 Sep. 2020
• In place of the viaduct, the city has been contemplating larger parking lots.
  — New York Times, 12 Mar. 2018
• The virtual fan idea is just too creepy to contemplate.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 14 May 2020
• The move to contemplate housing foreign workers in cruise ships comes with a fair bit of irony.
  — Philip Heijmans, Bloomberg.com, 10 May 2020
• What better way to contemplate that question than with a film that does both?
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 6 July 2021
• Now, though, golf may be forced to contemplate turning the page from the Tiger era.
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2021
• The assailant was at large for eight hours and was able to leave the state to contemplate another shooting.
  — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 14 July 2022
• 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
• But contemplating deep time does the job without the side effects.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Few of us have contemplated what a world without deer would look like.
  — Erika Howsare, The Atlantic, 30 Dec. 2023
• There are a lot of things that come to mind when contemplating the future of fashion.
  — ELLE, 3 May 2023
• Trump is also accused of the thought crime of contemplating bribery.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 28 Nov. 2019
• The pandemic has mimicked a lot of this by forcing many of us to contemplate the state of our lives.
  — Nadia Ebrahim, refinery29.com, 12 Apr. 2021
• Some of them have found it too depressing to contemplate.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 June 2022
• The mural is a prayer for unity, one the refugee spends his days contemplating from behind the counter.
  — Jonathan Kauffman, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2018
• Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
  — Anelise Chen, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022
• The shame that would have fallen on me and my mother was unbearable even to contemplate.
  — Mary Gordon, Vogue, 10 Oct. 2022
• The mere act of contemplating murder is a sign of mental illness.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 15 Aug. 2019
• The suggestion they might be displaced again is too painful to contemplate.
  — Alexander Smith, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2023
• Others reflect on the current tragedy and contemplate their next steps.
  — Steven Jiang, CNN, 19 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024