ruminate
verb (used without object)
to meditate or muse; ponder.
were ruminating
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past progressiveof ruminate.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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During a postwork dinner after Domino folded, they were ruminating about the hole left in the shelter category by the recent loss of so many titles.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2011
A week ago, we were ruminating in this space that the Huskies needed a win to pump some life back into the season.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 8, 2010
Some camels were ruminating in a square before heaps of cut grass.
From Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert
He sat back in his chair, his hands holding the edge of the table, his chin tucked down, as if he were ruminating, narrow-eyed, upon some involved business proposition.
From Erik Dorn by Ben Hecht
The manager assisted Bouvard and Pécuchet to jump over a wooden fence, and they passed close to two orchards, where cows were ruminating under the apple trees.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Gustave Flaubert
