Mull

//mɑl//

"Mull" in a Sentence (18 examples)

I need time to mull things over before I decide what to do.

This gives the subconscious mind a chance to mull over the original problem.

I didn't mull it over for long.

Mull it over.

Boldi had a lot to mull over.

to mull a thought or a problem

he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision

It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.

But here’s a thought I had as you were speaking just now, and I’m mulling it over.

When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.

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Mr. HERDMAN. — The honourable member for Nelson says they made a mull of it. If the honourable gentleman had been a financial authority he would never have given expression to such a thought.

2014, Andrea Pickens, A Stroke of Luck After studying the page a bit longer, she made a face. "Good Lord, you've really made a mull of it. Here, let me have a closer look."

The merchandise in this case consists of Madras mulls — thin cotton cloth.

Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.

the Mull of Kintyre

The Mulls have been excited also by another occurrence […] affecting rather the trading than fashionable world.

[…] but the glorious days, when "Qui-hyes" and "Mulls" used to be pitted against each other for first spear, have vanished, […]

[R]esidents of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras are, in Eastern parlance, designated 'Qui Hies,' 'Ducks,' and 'Mulls.'

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