Example sentences for: ruminations

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

  • But Whale's plangent ruminations are slack as well: "I've spent much of my life outrunning the past, and now it floods all over," he tells Boone, in what is surely the most generic line for a "memory play" ever written.

  • His head is filled with biblical and liturgical ruminations, Nietzschean doubt, American optimism, and a loud wail of self-diverting lust--all of which is expressed internally in a jumble of Yiddish and Polish and English and Hebrew.

  • A Wall Street Journal front-page feature gives a tour of the wacky world of INS "national interest" visas--granted upon the ruminations of a few hundred clerks who make their decisions without much in the way of guidelines.

  • As for your ruminations on the effects of competitive jealousy on news judgment, I'd have to agree that there's something out of whack if a story like the Paducah, Kentucky, bomb factory goes so wildly under-reported in other papers, just because the Post broke it.

  • Fight Club , a movie about a fictional organization of men who strip down and beat each other to pulp, has provoked more than its share of media hand-wringing, particularly diatribes about Hollywood's infatuation with violence and Faludi-esque ruminations about the emasculated American male.


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