Example Sentences

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It’s February, and Greenamyre is musing aloud over a lunch bowl of rice, spinach, and goat cheese in his sunlit office, which adjoins his lab in the heart of Pitt’s medical campus downtown.

From Science Magazine • May 4, 2023

Just as Marina is musing that Oleg once seemed to “have mastered the art of being rich,” we are learning that Oleg wants something different.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 2022

Probably nobody is musing that an American president might wake up one morning and launch a nuclear strike against North Korea.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2021

His first words to Gloria, who is musing glumly at a bar, are as follows: “Are you always this happy?”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 1, 2019

He is musing over something, and there is that characteristic shrewd smile on the lower part of the rugged face.

From The True Benjamin Franklin by Fisher, Sydney George