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Example sentences for: pondering

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

But it does hit a nerve, so Mintz spends his last chapter pondering the question of whether America has a cuisine after all.
In the end, I spent so much time pondering the implications of the wording that I missed two traffic light changes, and cars started to honk behind me.
Suppose, for example, that some business heavyweight is pondering a business deal with Sky Dayton--or is just curious about him, having met him at a cocktail party.
The media seized on the Internet angle, pondering whether e-mail is private (answer: No) and whether it's ethical for members of an online support group to breach confidentiality if they suspect a crime (answer: You decide).
But in child care, as in the behavioral sciences generally, we could have saved ourselves a lot of time and trouble by recognizing at the outset that people are animals, and pondering the implications of that fact.