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Example sentences for "cogitating"

Lexicographically close words:
cogitable; cogitare; cogitari; cogitate; cogitated; cogitatio; cogitation; cogitatione; cogitationes; cogitations
  1. Hugh appeared to be cogitating over Emily's proposal; his little grave face was the image of his father's.

  2. I must not forget to tell you that I saw Joseph this morning at a distance; he was standing in the lea of the pigstye, and cogitating in the real moony style.

  3. John was still deeply cogitating on this knotty point when the children came back, and conducted him and Valentine to the place where Brandon was at work, and Dorothea sitting near him on a tree-stump knitting.

  4. I think I had walked a good part of the night while I was cogitating these things and trying to bring my thoughts into order respecting them.

  5. Reality, in contradistinction to negation, can be explained only by cogitating a time which is either filled therewith or is void.

  6. But reason cannot cogitate this systematic unity, without at the same time cogitating an object of the idea--an object that cannot be presented in any experience, which contains no concrete example of a complete systematic unity.

  7. Now a negation cannot be cogitated as determined, without cogitating at the same time the opposite affirmation.

  8. The conception of twelve is by no means obtained by merely cogitating the union of seven and five; and we may analyse our conception of such a possible sum as long as we will, still we shall never discover in it the notion of twelve.

  9. This twofold manner of cogitating a power residing in a sensuous object does not run counter to any of the conceptions which we ought to form of the world of phenomena or of a possible experience.

  10. XIX One morning Keith was sitting in his office cogitating these things.

  11. So that's what you have been cogitating in my absence?

  12. Then Elizabeth dreamily--still cogitating a hundred things--touched an electric bell.

  13. As she sat cogitating thus, a group of young men formed themselves a little in front of her: looking up, she saw Vivian Standish, who was amusing the rest, with some droll quotation.

  14. Each was sunk in an interesting reverie, cogitating and moralising according to their capacities, and the circumstances so entirely different that caused their thoughts to take the courses they did.

  15. I lay down on my sofa doing nothing; cogitating vain impressions of injury and wrong; going over imaginary conversations with my husband--turning my face away from the sweet daylight, and all the joyous life out of doors.

  16. On cogitating further on this singular incident, I remembered how I came to be outside the cask--how thirst had influenced me to come out; and I now perceived how fortunate it was that I had followed the guidance of this appetite.

  17. I remained cogitating as to how I should encompass it; but for the life of me I could think of no other way than to gripe the creature in my hands, and squeeze it to death.

  18. He had given the bride away, and was at that moment cogitating over some half-dozen sentences destined for the after-dinner speech which he knew would be required of him.

  19. It was at this time, when walking along one day very moodily and in ill-humour, lamenting my extravagance and losses, and cogitating how I might with the small remainder of my capital retrieve my position, that I was accosted by a Seyed Hajji.

  20. After he had sat thus for some time cogitating what this might mean, the hour came round when the jailer should come and bring him his food for the day.

  21. Fritz all at once, after cogitating a while in a brown study.

  22. Do you know," observed Fritz, who had been cogitating awhile, "I think I see the reason for their methodical habit of going to and from the water.

  23. I was, this very moment, cogitating to send my daughter to the capital.

  24. Captain Dresser, as if cogitating the matter and speaking his thoughts aloud.

  25. So in cogitation, even when we are not cogitating a determinate quantum, we nevertheless set before our eyes a determinate quantum, but we do not cogitate it quatenus determinate.

  26. Truth consists in apprehending or cogitating them (p.

  27. It is an aggregate of nouemena, all of them in nature identical with itself; and, while cogitating them, the Nous at the same time cogitates itself.

  28. Quite a number followed at a respectable distance, and I was cogitating how to double on them when I came to the gateway of the town cemetery, through which I hastily entered.

  29. Therefore, after cogitating the matter, I resolved to attempt the bridge, taking the risk of being seen.

  30. Just as he was cogitating within himself, he, of a sudden, perceived Pi Hen come and ask him to go and wash his face.

  31. At the same time he was cogitating as to how to inject the personality of Cowperwood and his speedy prosecution without appearing to be neglecting the general welfare of the local party too much.

  32. And so, cogitating heavily, wearily, he began to undress.

  33. He was cogitating as to what might happen to him in case his son failed, for he was deeply involved with him.

  34. Let me see,' said the manager cogitating after dinner.

  35. I had been cogitating a long while to find out how to get rid of these fellows, when at last I determined that I would go on shore with the captain, and propose a plan to the governor.

  36. After dinner she left me, and went with her two men on her farming avocations, and I was for a long while cogitating on what had passed.

  37. But he repeated the thought aloud, as if it were quite an old one to him, and had troubled him very much; and sat with his chin resting on his hand, still cogitating and looking for an explanation in the fire.

  38. I imagine how one would feel," said the feeling Monroe, now inwardly cogitating over how to approach the subject that brought him there on this occasion.

  39. After cogitating again for a moment, he said: "I thought I was as good as anyone else, when I broached the subject.

  40. She stood a moment, after facing Anne, cogitating on what an appropriate reply should be.

  41. And if so be they're women, Cogitating from morn till night, From night till morn, Wherewithal shall they be clothed, And if their hats are on straight!

  42. While Murdock is cogitating on what the last words are meant to convey, the individual so recommended steps upon the ground.

  43. The Major, bent over him, seems cogitating what it should be.

  44. I accepted his invitation, and there, indeed, were the rival advocates laughing, gesticulating, and presumably cogitating how they could plunder the litigant who had most money to spend.

  45. Manila was simultaneously full of conspirators cogitating over murderous plots against the Americans, and a band of them was arrested in the month of May.

  46. Either he may be cogitating over what he shall say when he does come, or he may be an ignorant sort of fellow, who hardly ever reads the newspapers.

  47. Having arranged this, he took his leave of Smeaton, whom he left cogitating over the new development of affairs.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cogitating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.