(v. i.) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem.
(n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
(v. t.) To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine.
(v. t.) To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.
Example Sentences:
(1) The quantum leap in integration being mulled will not save Greece, rescue Spain's banks, sort out Italy, or fix the euro crisis in the short term.
(2) If we managed to import a German royal family, why is it not possible for us to also import the German housing system – slowly, bit by bit, along with their Christmas trees and mulled wine?
(3) Najam Sethi, editor of the weekly Friday Times, said: "The powers that be, that is the military and bureaucratic establishment, are mulling the formation of a national government, with or without the PPP [the ruling Pakistan People's party].
(4) Waizenhoffer and Mulling (1978) compared arterial and venous blood gases, but only drew a limited number of arterial samples at 12 and 24 hours.
(5) Many parents think hard about what kind of books to buy for their children; mull over the suitability of various TV shows and films; and compare the educational and entertainment value of different toys.
(6) Mercury vapor levels associated with grinding amalgam models and mulling amalgams in the palm of the hand following trituration have been measured in a dental laboratory in inhalation position.
(7) "The same is true every time we start mulling the prospect of attacking and bombing another country as though it's some abstract decision in a video game."
(8) While the Bank's monetary policy committee was forced to sit on its hands, counterparts on the European Central Bank were mulling whether to slash rates from 1.25%.
(9) I have tried them but don’t know what to do with them.” What matters is creating an environment that convinces, that allows the chemistry to be right: “Creating a world that feels as if they have been together for decades, choosing books for their shelves, deciding which mugs they are going to have, what their daily routine is.” In lieu of rehearsals, he spent three days in Paris with Rampling, mulling over her character.
(10) After leaving university, Gibbard mulled over the problem for a while and decided to try to solve it using a 3D printer, technology which by then becoming more affordable.
(11) Óscar García has offered his resignation following Brighton & Hove Albion's defeat in their play-off semi-final against Derby County , with the Spaniard likely to leave this week, despite being given time to mull over his decision.
(12) Police sources say the Cheshire chief constable, Simon Byrne, who has senior-level experience in the Met, is also mulling a bid.
(13) McCluskey is thought to be mulling over whether to stand again as general secretary in internal elections in 2018.
(14) "Obviously there was some difficult stuff for her to mull over in terms of the abuse, but she felt that I'd balanced it – which was my main concern – with the kind of pathos he had about him.
(15) The winning recipe: Mulled apple juice with camomile Photograph: afdhsofisa for the Guardian Mulled apple juice is basically all the spices of mulled wine added to apple juice instead.
(16) The Guardian understands that May’s team was still mulling over the issue as recently as Thursday evening, when senior figures said no decision had been taken.
(17) Looking back now I would have started out with far less optimism had I known how many hours I would spend in airless rooms, how many animated discussions, how many sleepless nights mulling over the pros and cons of settling the case.
(18) The move to create a new regulator has become becalmed as both press and government mull over the unsatisfactory and botched detail of the royal charter which is intended to enshrine its governance and independence.
(19) Mexicans mull response to Trump's wall: let migrants through – or boycott McDonald's?
(20) Whatever the outcome in 2015, the disaffected, idealistic young graduates currently mulling a Green vote will be restlessly looking for change, and will continue to pose questions for Labour well after 7 May 2015 Robert Ford is senior lecturer in politics at the University of Manchester
Rubbish
Definition:
(n.) Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.
(a.) Of or pertaining to rubbish; of the quality of rubbish; trashy.
Example Sentences:
(1) When my form teacher said I’d worked well in every subject except geography, I made her change the bit that said I’d not tried to say, instead, that I was rubbish at it.
(2) His report was widely rubbished at the time for lack of supporting evidence, and the addition of Osborne's sweeteners (or nudges, perhaps?)
(3) Therefore this gesture is actually a tribute to the country - they are saying, 'you are rubbish but our rubbish is as good as everyone else's best'.
(4) The problem, said Dr Kinsey, was that Shakespeare's "sceptred isle ... set in a silver sea" is now set in a sea of rubbish.
(5) Protesters set fire to rubbish bins and tyres, creating pillars of black smoke among the apartment blocks and office buildings in central Tehran.
(6) Water is no longer chlorinated, rubbish isn't collected anymore.
(7) Eaton Square is one of the poshest addresses in London – the rubbish left outside the six-storey houses include empty Pol Roger bottles; one or two buildings have flags (not British) or blue plaques detailing how the likes of Neville Chamberlain once lived there.
(8) I don’t even think about [Isis] – I look at the news and I’m like OK they’re just talking rubbish, and I turn it off.
(9) And, nearly as famously, he actually threw his only draft of it away at one point, until his wife convinced him to rescue it from the rubbish.
(10) "The only musical tradition then was heavy metal, rubbish cover bands and crooners like Tony Christie."
(11) W hat do you think happens to the rubbish when you throw it out into the street?” asks the Mighty Boosh ’s great realist Howard Moon.
(12) Around 200,000 still live in flimsy shelters on rubbish-strewn wastelands.
(13) But still, you know that when Manchester United is coming, we have to pay much more than another club, so that’s also an analysis, and it is not rubbish what I am saying.” Gill was also critical of the playing style.
(14) The march in the capital came in direct response to the government’s announcement on Friday that its investigation has established that dozens of young people were massacred in a rubbish dump outside the town of Cocula, that borders Iguala.
(15) Lauren Eyles, MCS Beachwatch officer, said: "Despite last summer being seen as a washout by many with heavy rain in many places, it appears those people that did visit our beaches left behind a lot of personal litter – sweet wrappers, ice cream wrappers and plastic drinks bottles failed to find their way into rubbish bins and ended up being dropped and left behind.
(16) To examine how mimicry was influenced by a person's power and the status of those around them, Carr asked 55 volunteers to watch videos of high-status people (such as a doctor or business leader) or low-status people (a worker in a fast food restaurant, say, or a rubbish collector) either being happy or angry.
(17) On 7 November Murillo announced that the authorities had collected badly burned human bone fragments from a rubbish tip outside of a neighbouring town called Cocula.
(18) I have to read so much rubbish here that I'm impressed with any missive that shows even a modicum of intelligence.
(19) We are constantly faced with others forcing their rubbish on us.
(20) They would take a rubbish bag but they would still leave stuff behind," said Tshering Tenzing Sherpa, an official of the Sagarmatha Pollution Control Committee, the NGO charged with overseeing the Everest cleanup.