Contemplate

//ˈkɑn.təmˌpleɪt//

"Contemplate" in a Sentence (17 examples)

When I contemplate the sea, I feel calm.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.

You are the star I contemplate.

By putting the work on exhibit, more people will be able to contemplate it.

Happiness does not lie in things. It lies in the souls of people who reflect upon or contemplate them.

Do you believe that elephants can contemplate life after death?

It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature.

Let's contemplate Swedish meatballs for a moment.

Beethoven's instrumental music invites us to contemplate a landscape gigantic beyond measure.

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To love, at least contemplate and admire, / What I see excellent.

We thus dilate / Our spirits to the size of that they contemplate.

I contemplated doing the project myself, but it would have taken too long.

There remain some particulars to complete the information contemplated by those resolutions.

If a treaty contains any stipulations which contemplate a state of future war.

In Calcutta, season tickets are issued only for the calendar month, with a different colour for each month, so that this problem does not arise. The merest whisper of an idea to change Bombay to the Calcutta system brought such a howl of protest in the Press, that it was never seriously contemplated.

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

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