All 5 Uses of
muse
in
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents
- "Dante," the father mused.†
Chpt 1.3
- The young man is shaking his head, musing.†
Chpt 1.3
- She shakes her head, musing to herself.
Chpt 1.3 *musing = thinking (reflecting deeply)
- Beautiful and well, Yolanda muses, that's what she had wanted with Clive, all things beautiful and well, instead of their obsessive, consuming passion that left her-each time Clive left her-exhausted and distraught.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- I wonder where I'll be in thirty-two years," Gladys mused.†
Chpt 3.14
Definitions:
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(muse as in: her musings) reflect (think) deeply on a subject -- perhaps aloud
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(muse as in: She was his muse) the source of an artist's inspiration - especially a person or mythological goddesseditor's notes: The 9 muses were the daughters of the Greek gods Zeus & Mnemosyne. Each of the muses was thought to inspire and preside over one of the arts.