"contemplate a question" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It can be used to imply thoughtfully considering a question or problem. Example Sentence: We took a moment to contemplate the difficult question before deciding on how to proceed.
For instance, last week, contestants were distracted by a mariachi band as they contemplated a question.
Back at home with Mom, and rounding 30, she contemplated a question mark future but was still determined to create.
She began seriously contemplating a question that has occupied Silicon Valley executives for the past couple of years: Why aren't there more female programmers in the U.S., and what can be done about it?
JUST in time for holiday travel, the city's leaders have contemplated a question for drivers with cell phones: When you reach out and touch someone, is your car going to reach out and smash someone else?
But they rarely stop to contemplate a simple question: what happens if they're too successful?
When Republican leaders blame the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for causing "dependency" on government, they fail to contemplate a simple question: Why do people receive food stamps in the first place?
The film led the local industry to contemplate an important question: is it morally justifiable for white filmmakers to tell Aboriginal stories?
The longer China surges (albeit no longer at double-digit rates) while a gridlocked Washington cannot solve its own problems, let alone anyone else's, the more Americans and others will contemplate a mind-concentrating question: what will life be like when China is top dog?Few believe that Chinese dominance will be identical to America's global supremacy of the past half-century.
Here comes Mr. Smith's most marketably perverse angle: It is not morally possible for Leo to contemplate such a question.
This doubt is chased away when he actually does contemplate such a question, but it can easily return at a later time when his thoughts are turned elsewhere.
