Explore Rumination through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like contemplation or regurgitation. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Rumination meaning
- The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud.
- Deep thought or consideration.
- Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.
Synonyms of Rumination
Using Rumination
- The main meaning on this page is: The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud. | Deep thought or consideration. | Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.
- Useful related words include: contemplation, regurgitation, emesis, vomiting.
- In the example corpus, rumination often appears in combinations such as: rumination on, and rumination, of rumination.
Context around Rumination
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 10 middle, 9 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Rumination
- In this selection, "rumination" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, personal, decrease, technical, resemble, due and gustavson stand out and add context to how "rumination" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a thoughtful rumination on sports and and decrease rumination or repeated. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "rumination" sits close to words such as ablation, abure and abvp, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with rumination
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
One example is the effect of rumination. (7 words)
The episode effectively balances solid pacing with rumination. (8 words)
The decline in pressure correlated with a decline in depressive rumination. (11 words)
It would be easy to label a one-woman show, since Elsa Dougherty stands front and center before the audience, and—through a series of songs, impressions, and digressions—appears to be recounting a deeply personal rumination about her own love life. (42 words)
I think the space we were given as audience members to contemplate the performance of emotions before and as they happened really put us into a headspace of inquiry, curiosity and rumination,” Gustavson said. (34 words)
But there are also people on the other extreme of the spectrum who live in a perpetual state of worry and suffering and rumination about having a serious illness,” he told AP. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
But there are also people on the other extreme of the spectrum who live in a perpetual state of worry and suffering and rumination about having a serious illness,” he told AP.
EEG recordings revealed that reindeer's brainwaves during rumination resemble the brain waves present during non-REM sleep, and these brainwave patterns suggest that the reindeer are more "rested" after ruminating.
It would be easy to label a one-woman show, since Elsa Dougherty stands front and center before the audience, and—through a series of songs, impressions, and digressions—appears to be recounting a deeply personal rumination about her own love life.
Studies show these repeated workouts improve attention skills and decrease rumination, or repeated negative thinking.
The statement paves the way for years of rumination about their thorny relationship, explored throughout this slender, powerful autobiography.
By activating sensory parts of the brain, we can disrupt habitual self-judgment and rumination by giving our thinking minds new information to consider.
Creed Bellamy’s love for hiking and backpacking inspired the mantra for the four-track EP: nature and rumination.
Discussing the Ajaokuta Steel calls for technical rumination due to its very nature.
His new album, “Slipping Away,” which comes out next week, is a deceptively gentle-sounding rumination on the rough patches of middle age, with its late-night anxieties and minor victories.
The film is a thoughtful rumination on sports and life, emphasizing the inevitability of failure.
A riff-wielding, bop-inducing rumination on one’s chances of getting busy.
Best of all, self-compassion doesn’t require anything external — just a commitment to meeting your challenges with greater acceptance and kindness rather than rumination and regret.
Dominion/Mother Russia” was a rumination on the apocalypse and also a critique of efforts to meaningfully engage with the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War.
Johnston is excellent at the mechanics of a thriller, but hides his adroitness between long stretches of rumination.
Not prone to tears myself, I just became quiet, trading my usual boisterousness for inactive rumination, while Canadians at large talked of nothing but the legalization of marijuana.
One example is the effect of rumination.
The decline in pressure correlated with a decline in depressive rumination.
The episode effectively balances solid pacing with rumination.
In some ways, atychiphobia has similar characteristics to OCD because of the obsessive thoughts and rumination.
I think the space we were given as audience members to contemplate the performance of emotions before and as they happened really put us into a headspace of inquiry, curiosity and rumination,” Gustavson said.
Common combinations with rumination
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- rumination on 6×
- and rumination 5×
- of rumination 4×
- rumination about 3×
- rumination and 2×
- depressive rumination 2×
- that rumination 2×