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
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
You can stroll into the churchyard, and move about as if you were ruminating on the epitaphs.
From A Laodicean : a Story of To-day by Thomas Hardy
In an enclosure near the road, fat cows and calves were ruminating in peace and comfort; a couple of merry colts came up to the fence and looked with curiosity at the wanderer.
From Problematic Characters A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen
