All 5 Uses of
ponder
in
In Cold Blood
- Where she found the time, and still managed to practically run that big house" and be a straight-A student, the president of her class, a leader in the 4-H program and the Young Methodists League, a skilled rider, an excellent musician (piano, clarinet), an annual winner at the county fair (pastry, preserves, needlework, flower arrangement)-how a girl not yet seventeen could haul such a wagonload, and do so without "brag," with, rather, merely a radiant jauntiness, was an enigma the community pondered, and solved by saying, "She's got character.†
Chpt 1pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
- With the check written but not yet signed, he swiveled back in his desk chair and seemed to ponder.†
Chpt 1 *ponder = think deeply or carefully about
- That was a riddle that Perry had pondered.†
Chpt 2pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
- Nye pondered the mathematics involved, and was encouraged by the conclusion he came to: that within a time span of twenty or twenty-four hours, the suspects could have made a round-trip journey of rather more than eight hundred miles, and, in the process, murder four people.†
Chpt 3
- And it was he who had photographed the corpses, those death-scene images Alvin Dewey had continuously pondered while the murders were still unsolved.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
to think deeply or carefully about something