All 6 Uses
ponder
in
The Poisonwood Bible
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- I had quite a lot to ponder as I sat on that airplane, and incidentally I still had to pee.†
Chpt 1ponder = think deeply or carefully about
- It was hard to say what she ever thought of Our Father's benedictions, in church or out, so I pondered more interesting mysteries, such as her eye.†
Chpt 1pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
- There was so little time to ponder right and wrong, when I hardly even knew where I was.†
Chpt 2ponder = think deeply or carefully about
- I had spent more time than the average child pondering unfortunate accidents of birth.†
Chpt 2 *pondering = thinking deeply or carefully about
- I pondered the human industry, the paint, the cement truck and concrete forms, all the resources that had gone into that one curb.†
Chpt 5pondered = thought deeply or carefully about
- I ordered another round of Elephant beers and we sat pondering our different thoughts.†
Chpt 5pondering = thinking deeply or carefully about
Definitions:
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(1)
(ponder) to think deeply or carefully about something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)