Example Sentences

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Elizabeth Green was musing the other day about buying 261 newspapers.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2020

Jalebi was musing about something she’d learned in a recent lesson about atomic structure.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2018

I was musing on it afterwards: does he not recognise me, or does he recognise me and not care?

From The Guardian • Jul. 13, 2013

Baobab was musing on the privations of Guinea in light of the announcement on September 26th that the IMF and the World Bank are to cancel $2.1 billion of the country’s debt.

From Economist • Oct. 3, 2012

Voldemort’s tone was musing, calm, but Harry’s scar had begun to throb and pulse: Pain was building in his forehead, and he could feel that controlled sense of fury building inside Voldemort.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling