had been ruminating
- past perfect progressive of ruminate.
Example Sentences
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Hill had been ruminating about a tell-all book from the early stages of the trial, a clerk from a neighboring county who’d assisted her testified at an evidentiary hearing on the jury-tampering complaint.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026
Q: How did you come up with the idea for “King of Joy”? Was it a flash-in-the-pan concept or something you had been ruminating on for a while?
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 2019
There they approached writer Winnie Holzman about creating their next series, and when Herskovitz mentioned Secret/Seventeen, she “really sparked to it”, as she had been ruminating about her own adolescence.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 26, 2017
Quorn, who had been ruminating on the events just past in glowering silence, looked up quickly.
From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William
Then a boy, who evidently had been ruminating, responded nonchalantly, "A gutsy brute, sir."
From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert
