Sentence examples for contemplated why from inspiring English sources

In early 2006 the HSBC board contemplated why its share price was flatlining compared with soaring rivals such as Fred Goodwin's RBS.

The New Yorker, August 24 , 1992P. 24 The narrator helped out at a Celtic archeological dig in Czechoslovakia; he contemplated why the Celts would have left so suddenly, and considered death, genus loci (the spirit of place), and life after death.

On the drive home, I contemplated why.

As I contemplated why my mother kept a record of these things but never told anyone, I came to understand that on Old Montauk Highway she couldn't help me because she saw herself as a victim.

(Let's pause here to contemplate why that might be).

Nobody within earshot could decipher if they were contemplating why their man has had such a poor World Cup.

Whatever the truth, they will be left to contemplate why they were unable to take advantage of Ronaldo's misfortune.

So she persists in contemplating: "Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?

That they will stop trying to dictate what I do with my body and spend some time contemplating why they feel such a strong need to do so.

The sea woman, contemplating why she never remarried after the war, simply thinks, "A life was formed and she took it".

You can contemplate why the Penguins have struggled so badly against the other top teams in the East, falling victim to Washington (again) with the bizarre turn of Mike Knuble as the Capitals' shootout hero.