mull over

Idioms and Phrases

Ponder, think about, as in She mulled over the offer for some time and then turned it down . [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

Prince Andrew is portrayed as casually rude to servants - and palace officials mull over the royals’ lack of empathy: “They’ve never been late for a train - because the train waits for them.”

From BBC

The unmade Quincy album made me wonder if writing this book made you mull over other missed opportunities.

From Los Angeles Times

“It was fully written in Africa and I now I’m giving it to the world. On my last album, ‘Watch The Sun,’ I had a lot of duets with heavy hitters like Stevie Wonder and Nas and had so much time to mull over everything because of the pandemic.

From Seattle Times

In addition to gauging the students' weighting bias, the study explored whether students' measures of self-control influenced task-related behavior: How did students characterize their level of motivation or capacity to mull over their initial thoughts about the research program, and did that affect whether students got an early start on research participation or put it off?

From Science Daily

District Judge Tanya Chutkan officially tossed the March 4 trial date for Donald Trump's federal election subversion case, allowing time for the higher courts to mull over his immunity claim, at which point a new schedule will be set depending on the outcome of the court's decision.

From Salon

Related Words

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