Sample Sentences for
muse
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(editor-reviewed)

muse as in:  her musings

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He mused aloud about the afternoon's developments.
mused = reflected (thought) deeply
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    Let me muse on it on a while and I'll get back to you.
    muse = reflect (think) deeply
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    In school I can look at her and muse over days departed.  (source)
    muse = reflect (remember and think about)
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    This would not do, I mused, as the class proceeded with its sums.  (source)
    mused = thought
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    Maybe we're all that way, the boy mused.  (source)
    mused = thought
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    There was nothing for the dogs to do, save the hauling in of meat now and again that Thornton killed, and Buck spent long hours musing by the fire.  (source)
    musing = thinking (reflecting deeply)
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    They'll probably call it "The Musings of an Ugly Duckling."  (source)
    Musings = thoughts
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    He said musingly: "You see, I loved Leslie."  (source)
    musingly = while reflecting (thinking deeply or remembering)
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    Before Max could muse on this, the door opened and the figure slipped inside the cell.  (source)
    muse = think (reflect) -- sometimes (and typically by this author) aloud
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    Well, college is supposed to be broadening, he muses, and there's no doubt he'll get broadened this year with a roommate like Cedric.  (source)
    muses = thinks
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    But thou, who art thou, that musest on the crag, perchance to delay going to the punishment that is adjudged on thine own accusations?†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-st" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou musest" in older English, later they would say "You muse."
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    "Maybe Monique has already left us," Gerald mused.  (source)
    mused = thought
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    She shakes her head, musing to herself.  (source)
    musing = thinking (reflecting deeply)
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    I scribble Nathaniel's musings in my spiral notebook, trying to keep up with a running soliloquy that is somewhat reminiscent of Joseph Mitchell's Professor Sea Gull character.  (source)
    musings = thoughts
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muse as in:  She was his muse

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She was his muse. He hasn't written anything of quality since she left.
muse = the source of an artist's inspiration
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    She is my muse. She inspired all the songs on that album.
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    Maybe, Abdullah thought, Father had sold the Wahdatis his muse as well.  (source)
    muse = source of inspiration
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    It says something about the type of writing I had been doing that my muse could flee without my noticing.  (source)
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    Instead of leaving me alone to "find my muse" (a real quote, I swear), he lands on the stool next to me and starts criticizing.  (source)
    muse = source of inspiration
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    I can name the nine Muses and the seven loves of Zeus.  (source)
    Muses = mythological goddesses thought to inspire artists
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    Lewis Carroll's Muse Alice Liddell to marry Prince Leopold  (source)
    Muse = source of inspiration
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    "Looks like insurance will cover about half the cost," she muses as she navigates the website.†  (source)
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    On the third floor I followed signs to collections, hoping that if I read several theater reviews in the local newspaper, it would spark my muse.  (source)
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    "I wonder where your mother stands on all this," Grandfather muses.†  (source)
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    I guess you could say, I had a muse.  (source)
    muse = the source of an artist's inspiration -- especially a person
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    "I suppose this is why people have children, isn't it?" she muses.†  (source)
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    Each is as true today as it will always be, and for Nathaniel the music is both medicine and muse, no less an inspiration now than it was before his fall.  (source)
    muse = source of inspiration
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    "I don't know, Mitch," Morrie muses, adjusting his glasses as he reads, "with work like this, we may have to get you back here for grad school."†  (source)
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends. I have a strange infirmity, which is nothing To those that know me.  (source)
muse = be puzzled
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