Words similar to thought

Example sentences for: thought

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

He slipped into the elevator, I slipped into my apartment, and I imagine he rolled his eyes to the ceiling and thought, "Great, another nut case in the building."
He actually thought Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ," another act of scatological desecration, was pretty to look at (though he thought the idea it conveyed a bit childish).
Selection is thought to function by altering the frequency of gene alleles present in the starting population.
Instead, in the early years of the public-TV experiment, PBS (which launched in 1969) and NET (which received no federal funds) aired the provocative programming they thought was their mission.
I am interested in what Safire has to say about language but find myself stymied: I get the feeling that he has deliberately created a minefield of interruptions in thought through which I must pick my way to the end.