cogitate
verb (used without object)
to think hard; ponder; meditate.
was cogitating
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past progressiveof cogitate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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She was cogitating upon the happiness of her future, when she saw the waiting vehicle ahead of her, and Frederick's dark figure silhouetted in the moonlight.
From The Secret of the Storm Country by Lucius W. Hitchcock
While he was travelling from point to point, he was cogitating fresh charades to be acted when we should again meet.
From Yesterdays with Authors by James T. Fields
Madeleine did not reply; she was cogitating whether it would be more convenient to go after the nurse at once, and what she ought to do if she could not get her to come back.
From Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson
For all the time he was cogitating the question whether the presence of Dr Stirling in the audience ought or ought not to be regarded as providential.
From The Regent by Arnold Bennett
He was cogitating a new stanza, when the door of a house beside him opened, and a well-wrapped-up girl beckoned to him, and ran into the shadow of the house.
From Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 1 by Various
