All 10 Uses
contemplate
in
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
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- When the preparations were complete, she had nothing to do but contemplate her finished draft and wait for the appearance of her cousins from the distant north.†
Chpt 1
- She needed to contemplate with eyes closed the full richness of what she had lost, what she had given away, and to anticipate the new regime.†
Chpt 1
- Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid.†
Chpt 1
- He walked to the edge of the pool and contemplated a sodden red towel left near the diving board.†
Chpt 1
- She lolled against the warm stone, lazily finishing her cigarette and contemplating the scene before her—the foreshortened slab of chlorinated water, the black inner tube of a tractor tire propped against a deck chair, the two men in cream linen suits of infinitesimally different hues, bluish-gray smoke rising against the bamboo green.†
Chpt 1
- He had spent three years drily studying the symptoms, which had seemed no more than literary conventions, and now, in solitude, like some ruffed and plumed courtier come to the edge of the forest to contemplate a discarded token, he was worshiping her traces—not a handkerchief, but fingerprints!†
Chpt 1
- By appearing to listen to Leon who was now recounting his glimpse of the King in a West End theater, Robbie was able to contemplate her bare arm and shoulder, and while he did so he thought she could feel his breath on her skin, an idea which stirred him.†
Chpt 1
- She knew it was self-pity, this mellow expansiveness as she contemplated what looked like her own ruin: Briony would surely go off to her sister's college, Girton, and she, Emily, would grow stiffer in the limbs and more irrelevant by the day; age and weariness would return Jack to her, and nothing would be said, or needed to be said.†
Chpt 1
- They were safe, Cecilia was with Leon, and she, Briony, was free to wander in the dark and contemplate her extraordinary day.†
Chpt 1 *
- In the moments she had to herself, usually in the dark, minutes before falling asleep, Briony contemplated a ghostly parallel life in which she was at Girton, reading Milton.†
Chpt 3
Definitions:
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(1)
(contemplate) consider or ponder
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)