What is "ruminations"

Usage examples of "ruminations".

Most of the brunette's mental ruminations dwelt on Commander Dash Sakai.

I thought briefly what a mess one loose jar could make of the Hall, and all our cleaning to be done again, and then decided that such ruminations were unsuited to the general air of hope and industry in Ruatha.

Finally, on the fifth day, she interrupted his ruminations with an ecstatic message that the ship was very near the cove.

It was while she was mulling over these cheerful matters that Bob Shaftoe unexpectedly piped up with his ruminations on the topic of stumps.

Moseh’s ruminations were bleaker yet: “They’ve been turning the land inside out for almost two hundred years, and here are the bones and guts strewn about…I’m reminded of the Expulsion in 1492.

I've enjoyed some fine intellectual sport riding the white powder, and I've come away from the exercise with ruminations that stood the test of straight study.

How she longed to have Margie at the other end of a telephone, to share these ruminations with her.

At last, he picked up the thread of his ruminations: "… the love I felt seemed to pass away from me.

Riker considered all the times he had nearly lost Deanna forever, and wondered whether the science officer was having similar ruminations about Christine, who had remained on Vanguard.