Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: contemplating
IPA transcription: [k'ɑntəmpl,eɪtɪŋ]
Pronunciations of contemplating
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Usage examples
  • and he stopped, while contemplating the bay.
  • He finds no comfort in contemplating Leviathan:
  • I tell you, just at present, I am not contemplating it.'
  • She stood with her hands on her hips, pensively contemplating the garments.
  • Soon he was contemplating with a satisfied smile a green and enraged cat and a green and enraged hen.
  • Jean Valjean could not refrain from contemplating that vast, clear shadow which rested over him; thoughtfully he bathed in the sea of ecstasy and prayer in the majestic silence of the eternal heavens.
  • Because of the tattered soldier's question he now felt that his shame could be viewed. He was continually casting sidelong glances to see if the men were contemplating the letters of guilt he felt burned into his brow.
  • Bertha Kircher saw that it was useless to appeal to the brute and so she held her peace though she was filled with sorrow in contemplating the fate that awaited the young officer, scarce more than a boy, who had impulsively revealed his love for her.
  • To see him at work on the stamps, with the relish of an artist, touching them like pictures, looking at them sideways, taking weighty notes of dates and amounts in his pocket-book, and contemplating them when finished, with a high sense of their precious value, was a sight indeed.
  • "That's right!" said the dwarf, stretching out first his legs, and then his arms, and then shaking his head up and down, and as far round as it would go, for five minutes without stopping; apparently with the view of ascertaining if he were quite correctly put together, while Gluck stood contemplating him in speechless amazement.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Liturgy of the Hours, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording The Beatles, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Watchmen, License CC BY-SA 4.0