Sample Sentences for
ponder
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    The prince pondered this for a moment. He nodded. "Then I forgive you."  (source)
    pondered = thought carefully about
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    I understood, pondered a while, and concluded that the only way I could retire with a shred of dignity was to go to the bathroom, where I stayed long enough to make them think I had to go.  (source)
    pondered = thought
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    He pondered a moment.  (source)
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    He pondered.  (source)
    pondered = thought deeply or carefully
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    "It's an unusual request," he said, pondering the situation.  (source)
    pondering = thinking deeply or carefully about
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    But what I wanted to do was ponder what all Grandpa had just said.  (source)
    ponder = think deeply or carefully about something
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    Back in darkness, Lale ponders his fate.†  (source)
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    There was one major imponderable in the case against Jim Williams: Spencer Lawton, the new district attorney.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "im-" in imponderable means not and reverses the meaning of ponderable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
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    As from the bottom of a thick black pit he saw himself enclosed by cabinshapes, vague, kerosenelit, so that the street lamps themselves seemed to be further spaced, as if the black life, the black breathing had compounded the substance of breath so that not only voices but moving bodies and light itself must become fluid and accrete slowly from particle to particle, of and with the now ponderable night inseparable and one.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-able" means able to be. This is the same pattern you see in words like breakable, understandable, and comfortable.
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    She ponder'd this, and fear'd it was in fate; Nor could forget the war she wag'd of late For conqu'ring Greece against the Trojan state.†  (source)
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    Often it had occurred to me in my ponderings upon the subject, that had that altercation taken place in the public street, or at a private residence, it would not have terminated as it did.†  (source)
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    5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She pondereth" in older English, today we say "She ponders."
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    And Govinda mumbled a verse to himself, a verse from an Upanishad: He who ponderingly, of a purified spirit, loses himself in the meditation of Atman, unexpressable by words is his blissfulness of his heart.†  (source)
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