Example sentences for: contemplate

How can you use “contemplate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • With few facilities other than a couple of hotels and restaurants on the coach-tour circuit, it isn’t really a place to linger, unless the weather’s warm and you want to go swimming or sit on the rocks and contemplate the ocean.

  • In Europe people had time to contemplate the area before settling on an appropriate name; in the United States, where settlement was more rapid, names often had to be chosen without delay.

  • Its population is actually dwindling, as women assert themselves in careers and couples contemplate the economic challenges of raising a family in a congested and competitive city like Madrid.

  • But such giddy stuff isn't really beach wear, great though Helmut, Eva, and Galliano all are to contemplate at length.

  • Lest anyone contemplate the convenience of this excuse, Bush spun it as a sacrifice.


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