The phrase "make us ponder" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to suggest that a particular situation, idea, or set of facts will cause the audience to consider or reflect upon it further. For example, "The difficult question posed to us made us ponder the many possible solutions."
Our first paychecks make us proud at what we can buy; our current ones make us ponder what we can't.
He was one of those who make us ponder the terrible stress of the job and its art, its curse and its inspiration.
His is a rare ability not only to grin happily in the face of a crowd laughing at and not with him, but also to make us ponder why the subject ever needed his input in the first place.
But the fact that something as ostensibly banal as a YouTube comment can make us ponder such possibilities, acting as a personals ad for a relationship that is long past, is a testament to the evocative power of the internet.
I Used My Stockmarket Millions to Throw Raves and Sell Drugs.
Two rather disturbing stories this week made us ponder — not for the first time — the relationship between food and garbage.
Acclaimed as a "mesmerizing" "masterpiece" "that makes us ponder the very nature of love," his summer film "A.I.
By Andrea Thompson August 12, 2008 Two rather disturbing stories this week made us ponder — not for the first time — the relationship between food and garbage.
By showing the richness of their emotional experiences, it makes us ponder our responsibilities to them in a more serious way".
Ms. Moore, who wore a clinging and low-cut long black DONNA KARAN dress and sat next to the designer, made us ponder, once again, how good it is to be the queen.
Frank McGuinness's excellent translation, commissioned for the play's last major revival in 1997, also makes us ponder the purity of Electra's motives: when she asks her mother, "Why are you bedding the man who killed my father?" you get a whiff of the subterranean sexuality that Jung dubbed the "Electra complex".
