How to use muse in a sentence

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• There's a cure for what ails him after all, she mused before continuing.2022 October 4, HarryBlank, “Drilling Down”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2024. From the entry moon eyes
• Mount Kumgang, or Geumgangsan, which translates as Diamond Mountain, has always been a muse for Koreans.2018 December 13, “North and South Korea meet through handshakes and art”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 13 Dec 2018…. From the entry Kumgang
• We were served with two muse bouches which really set the scene for what was to come.2017 August 7, Abdul L (@AbdulL827), “Spectacular!”, in Tripadvisor. From the entry muse-bouche
• Muse studied Ida May's breasts for a moment, then reached out and grabbed the left one.2016, Deanna Chase, Spirits, Rock Stars, and a Midnight Chocolate Bar: Pyper Rayne, Book 2. From the entry asset
• Would a new nose reinstate one, the rhinoplast Otto Hildebrand mused a few centuries later?2015, Valeria Finucci, The Prince's Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine. From the entry rhinoplast
• Paula mused over the idea as she took small bites of her nooked and crannied muffin.2012, John M. Garzone, Crazed Control, page 157. From the entry nooked
• "There's a lot of USO girls in Hollywood," Hope mused on his World War II tours.2003 July 29, Lenore Skenazy, “Bob Hope's Jokes Just Lived For the Moment”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 18 Oct 2009. From the entry thigh-slapper
• The quintet in Propheticape muses out-of-measured-time until Holland leads it into swift, riding jazz.2000, Max Harrison, Charles Fox, Eric Thacker, The Essential Jazz Records: Modernism to postmodernism, page 238. From the entry ride
• Oh, heaven forbid: I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse!1970, Monty Python, The Cheese Shop. From the entry terpsichorean
• "I wonder where those prickly pear blossoms came from," he mused.1949, Dorothy M. Johnson, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 107. From the entry prickly pear
• "I don' see why he don't carry a whip," mused Jeb Case.1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 6, in The Oakdale Affair. From the entry tin lizzie
• “I don't see how dat kin be,” mused the old man.1904 December 31, The Chicago News, “Why He Got No Letters”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC. From the entry yo'
• She became his muse, as well as a longstanding one to ’80s giants Jean-Paul Goude, Thierry Mugler and Azzedine Alaïa.2018 April 17, Thessaly La Force, “When Models Became as Famous as the Artists they Inspired”, in T: The New York Times Style Magazine…. From the entry thank the gods
• But, what is relevant about it is that his muse is his wife, Marcela, who is 42 years younger than him.2016, Tim Carvell [et al.], “Journalism”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 3, episode 20, John Oliver (actor), Warner Bros.…. From the entry decency
• So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivist champion of all things fringe.2015 September 7, Holland Cotter, “Exhibitions Where Moral Force Trumps Market Forces”, in New York Times. From the entry fringe
• So was the cellist Charlotte Moorman, muse to Nam June Paik and proactivism champion of all things fringe.2015 September 7, Holland Cotter, “Exhibitions Where Moral Force Trumps Market Forces”, in New York Times. From the entry proactivism
• “How can one be so fat and have cold feet?” he muses, contemplating his own stodgy and unwarmable extremities.2008 March 9, James Parker, “Ego Check”, in New York Times. From the entry unwarmable
• "When one door closes, another opens," the former Stamps president mused yesterday after being fired by the team's new ownership group.2005 January 14, Dan Toth, “'I've had a great run': Rooke 'very emotional' after firing”, in Calgary Sun, Canada, retrieved 06 May 2013. From the entry when one door closes, another opens
• “We are now like fast boys upon their travels, and our imprudences have brought us into trouble,” he mused.2004, William F. Deverell, Whitewashed Adobe: The Rise of Los Angeles and the Remaking of Its Mexican Past, University of California…. From the entry social hangover
• "If we used Phobos as the entrapping vehicle," Cocci mused, "we could establish a base on Mars, a dome city.1986, Thomas Wren, The Doomsday Effect, New York, N.Y.: Baen Books, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry autofactory
• Going round with Angus McTavish carrying your bag, she mused, was equivalent to about four bisques to the opposition.1937 March 19, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, Lord Emsworth and Others, London: Herbert Jenkins, OCLC 851336728; republished Woodstock…. From the entry bisque
• One of the diplomats mused, half-jokingly, that Britons were perhaps most missed for their fine command of English, leaving EU documents riddled with stilted euro-speak.2026 June 20, “Would the EU take Britain back?”, in afp. From the entry Eurospeak
• It was, its maker mused, intended to be the first installment of a trilogy of records, each one dedicated to a different aspect of Frippertronics.2021, Dave Thompson, I Feel Love: Donna Summer, Giorgio Moroder, and How They Reinvented Music, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry Frippertronics
• Muse willed the change, swallowing and carefully constricting the epiglottis in a series of timed bio-codes that had taken her a long time to master.2011, Gabriel S. de Anda, Scissors, Rock and Paper Doll, →ISBN. From the entry bio-code
• "Could it be planned and executed without coordination with intelligence and security services — or their extensive infiltration?" he mused in the letter to Bush.2009 September 20, David Ignatius, “Reading Iran by the Letter”, in The Washington Post. From the entry truther
• “Students here cover a spectrum,” muses a senior, including “preppy pop-collars, hardcore hippies, emo punk rockers, jocks, semi-goths, and Dungeons & Dragoners.”2008, Edward B. Fiske, Robert Logue, the Fiske Guide to Colleges staff, Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008, twenty-fourth edition, Naperville…. From the entry Dungeons & Dragoner
• From the muse, from god, from literature itself, the subconscious mind, the Ur-mind, some kind of Jungian other, from the reptilian brain.1999, Susan K. Perry, Writing in flow: keys to enhanced creativity. From the entry ur-mind
• 'I believe he may be the result of the rare triadic union of a saltimbanque, an oyster and an octopode,' mused Alfred.1998, Mark Frutkin, Atmospheres Apollinaire, Dundurn, →ISBN, page 67. From the entry octopode
• Once it was all over, the crowd formed around them once more to gaze at the artographer, his muse, and the work that was a product of them both.2016, Samantha Ricks, The Muse’s Opus. From the entry artographer
• "The golden age is over," muses Tamara, but one of her clearer-eyed colleagues is quick to correct her: "The gravy train has been derailed, you mean."2011 April 24, Alex Clark, “The Spoiler by Annalena McAfee – review”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News &…. From the entry clear-eyed
• As the reference to the muse Caïssa suggests, creativity is now an index not of subjective expression but, rather, of the poetic redeployment of prior determinations.2010, Dalia Judovitz, Marcel Duchamp, Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry Caïssa
• I often mused on what the politicians or authorities would say if they could see for themselves the horrendous consequences of someone who’d been glassed, or viciously assaulted.2002, Geoff Doherty, A Promoter's Tale page 72. From the entry glass
• Kitty Garman, daughter of Kathleen Garman—Lorna Wishart's sister—and Jacob Epstein, became his Greekish muse in a series of portraits culminating in Girl With Roses, a masterpiece of wide-eyed apprehension.2002 May 18, William Feaver, “Seeing through the skin”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry Greekish
• As he looked up at the rim of the hole, faintly limned in the moonlight, he mused that this searching feeling of his was perhaps jealousy.1964, Kōbō Abe [pseudonym; Kimifusa Abe], chapter 30, in E. Dale Saunders, transl., The Woman in the Dunes: Translated from the Japanese…. From the entry limn
• A lean man of fifty-five, with weak eyes and soft speech, he rakes shale on the road and botanizes, ornithologizes, geologizes and muses on the museum.1963, Brooks Atkinson, Tuesdays and Fridays, New York, N.Y.: Random House, →LCCN, page 11. From the entry ornithologize

Meaning of muse

1. noun Of a person: a source of inspiration.
2. noun A poet; a bard.
3. verb To become lost in thought, to ponder.

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How do you use muse in a sentence?

Muse is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife, lover, and muse.”

What is a short sentence with muse?

“For quotations using this term, see Citations:muse.”

What does muse mean?

Muse means of a person: a source of inspiration.