Example Sentences

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Speaking to many of the Clotilda descendants and others in the community around Africatown, where many of them settled, Brown ruminatively explores past and present, heritage and community.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2022

He paused often and ruminatively as he spoke.

From New York Times • May 18, 2018

“He paused,” Preston reports, “and then said ruminatively, ‘There are not many badgers in the House of Lords.’

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2016

These actors achieve the sort of hyper-expressive or understated, rapid-fire or ruminatively halting presence that surpasses scripted drama to become a drama unto itself—a personal confrontation with, and embodiment of, the power of the cinema.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 14, 2015

Francis took the letter and shuffled ruminatively through the pages.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt