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Example sentences for "pondered"

Lexicographically close words:
ponded; ponder; pondera; ponderable; pondere; pondereth; ponderibus; pondering; ponderings; ponderosa
  1. The envoy in his faithful breast Pondered Sugríva’s high behest.

  2. For this, when heard and pondered well, Will all complaint and rage dispel.

  3. Sugríva spoke inflamed with ire, Scanned Ráma with a glance of fire, Pondered a while in silent mood.

  4. Thus Ráma spoke: the bird of air Pondered his speech with anxious care, And wisely deemed it good to give One of his eyes that he might live.

  5. I feared to draw the arrow out, And pondered thus in painful doubt: “Now tortured by the shaft he lies, But if I draw it forth he dies.

  6. As in sad thought I pondered long Back to my memory came the wrong Done in wild youth, O lady dear, When ’twas my boast to shoot by ear.

  7. Such were his thoughts: he pondered long, And fear grew faint and hope grew strong.

  8. Bill pondered the phenomenon for a week before he put his query into words.

  9. Old Asa Whipple seemed impressed with this view of the situation, and pondered it for a little in silence.

  10. The boy pondered the mystery of how the ring got into the barrel.

  11. The stars came out in the heavens, and he thought once more of that other night, when he stood and watched them, three years back, and pondered on his "double heart.

  12. He lit another cigarette and pondered upon the distinctive touch that sets the Gallic race apart.

  13. Runes of treaties Well weighed and pondered Cut were by Wotan In the shaft, Which wielding, he swayed the world.

  14. At last I understand What in vain I pondered so long: Why I roam the woods And run to escape thee, Yet return home in the end.

  15. I, who like to go to the root of matters, often pondered over this phenomenon.

  16. But it would be much worse with me if I always pondered over these questions so earnestly as I have done while writing these last pages.

  17. Chwastowski pondered over this a little while.

  18. After I had pondered thus I once more proposed to my soul to elect asceticism and had yearning for it.

  19. And the more I pondered over asceticism the more I yearned for it so that at last I earnestly thought of becoming an ascetic.

  20. Thereupon I pondered as follows:-- [Sidenote: Meditation of despair.

  21. When she had arrived there she disguised herself and became a servant to the queen, and pondered how she could kill the Nang Me Prah and put her own daughter Nang E in her place.

  22. The wife pondered awhile and then advised her husband to get dressed in his best clothes and go to the palace, look down the well to see what it was like, then make some excuse to come back home and she would tell him what next to do.

  23. For a long time he pondered on the best way to do this and at last devised a plan which, if severe, was at least novel.

  24. I, too, have pondered upon what was to be done for Celia.

  25. She pondered how to put the Freiherr upon his guard without betraying Celia's secret, and how at the same time to influence the old man to relinquish his foolish prejudice against Kurt.

  26. Pacing his room to and fro, he pondered upon the occurrences of the past hour.

  27. Celia had often pondered the mystery of her friend's past, and was firmly convinced that whatever it might be Anna never could have been to blame.

  28. Not in vain had he pondered in youth the political maxims of the great Florentine.

  29. They are things which can not be too well pondered on by every man who desires the return of better days to this country.

  30. Every day," says he, "I pondered on the genius and fate of Burns.

  31. He pondered about this sensation, which filled him completely, as he was slowly walking along.

  32. For a long time, he pondered his transformation, listened to the bird, as it sang for joy.

  33. She pondered over it and thought it out until it became too big for one person to hold.

  34. And now, whilst I pondered this matter in all my spirit and being, how that I should some way come to Naani, there befell a very terrible thing.

  35. And I pondered a moment, whether that I send my voice over the Valley, to question what they did be; but yet had caution, and harked through the utter silence of the night; for I had no surety of aught.

  36. He pondered over it in the schoolroom; he pondered over it when he went to bed.

  37. The pages over which Zo pondered in endless perplexity were crumpled by weary fingers, and stained by frequent tears.

  38. They talked first of the borrowed books, of the Swinburne he was devoted to, and of the Browning he did not understand; and she led the conversation on from subject to subject, while she pondered the problem of how she could be of help to him.

  39. It puzzled him, and he pondered it as if life and death hung on the solution.

  40. So that when he knocked at the door of the little room--after a sleepless night in which he had pondered long how he should act at the coming interview--he had some hopes.

  41. She pondered over the problem until the maids, who were too much upset to stay in their own quarters, came into the room with lights.

  42. While Mrs Centum pondered a suggestion so interesting, Lucilla, on her part, also took advantage of the occasion, and descended from the calm heights of dignity on which she had placed herself.

  43. And it was not even the scriptural coals of fire she was thinking of as she pondered her great undertaking in her mind.

  44. I have pondered this matter for more than thirty years.

  45. In meditation I pondered the ultimate wisdom of Confucius and smiled at the folly of the white barbarians who had tried to show us a new god, a new religion.

  46. Biron gazed at him a moment without speaking, as if he pondered on the answer he should give.

  47. She pondered over it as they rode that evening, with the weltering sun in their eyes and the lengthening shadows of the oaks falling athwart the bracken which fringed the track.

  48. Kingdom made no answer at once, but he was still thinking of the plan he had so impulsively proposed and the more he pondered the more it appealed to him.

  49. Far from it; for now he was more anxious than ever for the coming of daylight, or at least a clearing of the weather which would enable him to find security while he pondered on what must be done.

  50. Extremely tired and too drowsy, now that he was in the midst of warmth and comfort again, to think much of the danger of his position, John fell into a doze on his bunk while Kingdom still pondered upon the salt springs mystery.

  51. She thought it very curious, the coincidence, and pondered it, being ignorant of the fact that it is always a matter for wonder when the man meets the woman, no matter where.

  52. Peter stood out on the balcony with his arm round her, while the night wind beat about them, and pondered what was best to do.

  53. Peter pondered this on the balcony, while Marie in the bedroom was changing her clothing, soaked with a day in the snow.

  54. Harmony ceased her hysterical crying at last and pondered what was best to do.

  55. Ridiculous as the thought was, Peter pondered it as he went back to the Pension Schwarz.

  56. Lighting another cigar, I seated myself, and once more pondered over the matter.

  57. On my way back to the inn I pondered over my mother's words.


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