musing
IPA: mjˈuzɪŋ
noun
- thought, meditation, contemplation
adjective
- Absorbed in thought; contemplative
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Examples of "musing" in Sentences
- The mail was all about apologies for the lengthiness of these musings.
- ‘Was it for this his gentle youth was passed in musing solitude and mystic studies?
- It's sad this kind of musing passes for financial advice in a prominent financial newspaper.
- One thing I noticed in my musing is that Chinese New Year and Lent do have a food tradition in common: the consumption of fish.
- "Lordy massy, how prosperous everything does seem here!" he said, in musing tones, over his inevitable mug of cider; "so different from what 't is t 'our house.
- Indeed, what she did then at first was not to think, but to recall in musing all the scenes and as far as possible all the words of that evening; with a consciousness behind this all the while that there was hard thinking coming.
- I know that I have been accused of foolishness in musing whether we are heading for a Third World War, but the news that Barack Obama's Vice President, the inept Joe Biden, is due to make a keynote foreign policy speech at an international conference in Munich fills me with a sense of dread.
- And I don't quote Phyllis Schlafly often, but I think she may have been on target when she said that his comments about women, homemakers and lawyers that he made when he was 25 were the musings -- she didn't use the word "musing" -- were wisecracks of a young bachelor who didn't have much world experience.
- The simplemindness of this musing is truly impressive — a Republican state legislator from a semi-rural Virginia exurb of DC makes an offensive claim that birth defects are divine punishment after abortions and you imagine that is cause for defections from the GOP and into the arms of the Obama administration?!
- Soon after the lords had quitted him, the buoyant elasticity of his figure, which before seemed ready to rise from the earth, so was his soul elevated by his sublime resolves, gave way to melancholy retrospections, and he threw himself into a chair with his hands clasped upon his knee and his eyes fixed in musing gaze upon the floor.