Sentence examples for we wonder for from inspiring English sources

We open cardboard boxes full of our previous books and, if we're lucky enough to have seen our work translated into another language, we wonder for the 10th or hundredth time what we're supposed to do with four extra copies of a novel in, for example, Czech.

We learn a great deal about the world and our theories when we wonder, for instance, what would have happened after the big bang if the law of gravity had been an inverse cube law instead of an inverse square.

And democracy is still with us, we hope, but we wonder for how long as our politicians and policies seem so easily bought and sold.

We wonder for much longer than we should if we would have been better off writing, "excess" instead of "plethora". This begins a domino effect of insanity; when the new word moseys in the story, the feel of the sentence is altered, throwing an entire paragraph off-kilter.

"We wondered for five years".

We wondered for a moment whether we'd made a terrible mistake in opting for Procida.

We wondered for a minute what plans the radio enginners might be meditating for "The Last Supper".

Toward the end of the semester we wondered for a while if we would be able to load programs from an SD card, but we were able to get this working in the end.

And we may wonder, for the first time in our lives, if we are making the best choice of the time that remains.

We may wonder (for example) why the parents do not go with the child, whether she has relatives in California to whom she is sent, and what age she is when this event occurs.

We wonder too: for Kalinda, is it sex, strategy or both?