Example sentences for: ponder

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

  • At best, it tells hitherto untold tales about women in the ghettoes and death-camps, forcing us to ponder such imponderables as: When a baby is born in Auschwitz, is it crueller to let him starve or to feed him sugar water and prolong his death?

  • Vaughan's preoccupation leads him to not only ponder the sexually charged road deaths of the famous (James Dean, Jayne Mansfield, Albert Camus), but to hang around accident sites, photographing them and later replicating the contorted postures of the victims in his trysts with prostitutes.

  • (It is not within the province of this letter to delve into the principal female and male sexual organs and ponder why they have reversed genders.

  • Joseph's relentless visits to the library, Ruth's relentless visits to the bathroom scale and, in her mind's eye, to the meals she has eaten that day--Rosen records just how tedious, how paradoxically soul-entrapping, it can be to live and to ponder the anorexic urge to escape the body.

  • The liberal Guardian, while reconciled to the likelihood of the general's release, said that "the best outcome of the past two weeks of living under arrest and uncertainty is that the general will have to ponder whether he will ever be able to travel abroad again."


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