Sample sentences for MUSE - verbalworkout.com

2 meanings

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1 —as in:
her musings

Definition

reflect (think) deeply on a subject — perhaps aloud

mused = reflected (thought) deeply

Other Uses (with this meaning)

muse = reflect (think) deeply

I muse we met not with the Dauphin's grace,
Shakespeare, William -- King Henry VI, Part 1
Before Max could muse on this, the door opened and the figure slipped inside the cell.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge

muse = think (reflect) — sometimes (and typically by this author) aloud

An hour passed, maybe two with Max sitting quietly and musing on his life.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

musing = reflecting (thinking) deeply on a subject

We mused over the thought for a while and soon the quiet stretched into long minutes
Maureen Daly -- Seventeenth Summer

mused = reflected (thought) deeply on a subject

Still Theresa mused all night, and the next day too.
Gish Jen -- Typical American

mused = thought (reflected deeply) on a subject

This would not do, I mused, as the class proceeded with its sums.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

mused = thought

He said musingly: "You see, I loved Leslie."
Agatha Christie -- And Then There Were None

musingly = while reflecting (thinking deeply or remembering)

Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

musings = thoughts

2 —as in:
She was his muse

Definition

the source of an artist's inspiration - especially a person or mythological goddess

muse = the source of an artist's inspiration

Other Uses (with this meaning)

muse = the source of an artist's inspiration

The most potent muse of all is our own inner child.
Stephen Nachmanovitch
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.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist

muse = source of inspiration

But on that fateful day, the thought of taking scalpel to Sister Mary Joseph Praise—his surgical assistant, his closest confidante, his typist, his muse, and the woman he realized he loved—terrified him.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone

muse = source of inspiration

I can name the nine Muses and the seven loves of Zeus.
Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl

muses = mythological goddesses thought to inspire artists

Lewis Carroll's Muse Alice Liddell to marry Prince Leopold
Frank Beddor -- The Looking Glass Wars

muse = source of inspiration

Nathaniel plays Bach and Beethoven as if he's a young student again, the music filled with a sense of urgency and possibility. Every few minutes he turns toward the dresser, checking in with his mother and his muse.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
Wouldn't you really like to be a tenth Muse, then, Maggie?
Eliot, George -- The Mill on the Floss
My Muse may be excused if she is silent henceforth.
Thoreau, Henry David -- Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience

Less commonly:

More rarely, Muse or muses may refer to the 9 mythological goddesses of art.

Much more rarely, muse is used as a synonym for "poet".

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