Sample Sentences forcogitate (editor-reviewed)
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She liked to sit on the back porch at night and cogitate about where her life was headed.cogitate = think deeply
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The philosopher cogitated for hours in her study, pondering the meaning of existence and human nature.cogitated = thought deeply
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Before answering the difficult exam question, she paused to cogitate on all the evidence she had studied.cogitate = think deeply
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But be warned, Because Arabella almost learned too late, That before we love, we must cogitate!† (source)
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Oh, you make me knit the brows of my very soul and cogitate.† (source)
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And in the meantime Clyde was left to cogitate on and make the best of a world that at its best was a kind of inferno of mental ills—above which—as above Dante's might have been written—"abandon hope—ye who enter here."† (source)
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The average squirrel cogitation goes something like this: I wonder what there is to eat.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Then he tossed the marble away pettishly, and stood cogitating.† (source)
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I spare you the twists and turns of my cogitations, for no conclusion was found on the road to Headingley, and I ask You to suppose that I soon found out my mistake about the turning and retraced my steps to Fernham.† (source)
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Having thus given his parent God speed, young Jerry seated himself on the stool, entered on his reversionary interest in the straw his father had been chewing, and cogitated.† (source)
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"Ol' Villan had a dog once that run away with the wolves," Bill cogitates aloud.† (source)
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He pushed his helmet back on his head, a cogitative move.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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But, exhausted by his cogitation, he'd have energy left for only one word, the name of the flower.† (source)
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When thus perplexed—and cogitating, among other hypotheses, whether the letter might not have been one of those decorations which the white men used to contrive in order to take the eyes of Indians—I happened to place it on my breast.† (source)
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He could not get away from the fact that if he had been brought up as she had they would have been no more fit to find their way about than the Babes in the Wood; nor could he, for all his anxious cogitations, see any honest reason (any, that is, unconnected with his own momentary pleasure, and the passion of masculine vanity) why his bride should not have been allowed the same freedom of experience as himself.† (source)
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And as Miss La Creevy walked along, revolving in her mind various genteel forms and elegant turns of expression, with a view to the selection of the very best in which to couch her communication, she cogitated a good deal upon the probable causes of her young friend's indisposition.† (source)
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