entertain a thought

Because of her, he entertained a thought worse than all the rest.

I can entertain a thought that p without thinking of p as true.

They had seen too many of their number die in their chains to permit them to entertain a thought of escape.

"Even so..." Mishenka appeared to entertain a thought briefly, before discarding it.

Most of the people here he knew personally; there wasn't a one of them that had ever entertained a thought that hadn't first come from someone else.

"Do you really expect us to believe that simply growing up among the Amish might make a person unable to entertain a thought of violence or revenge or trickery?"

This was the first time that I entertained a thought of breed up some tame creatures, that I might have food when my powder and shot was all spent.

I have now been six years with M. Noirtier, and let him tell you if ever once, during that time, he has entertained a thought which he was unable to make me understand."

At last I asked him warmly, what opinion he must have of my modesty, that he could suppose I should so much as entertain a thought of lying with two brothers, and assured him it could never be.

Then before any of the spectators could say a word or even entertain a thought about the matter, both of them were dancing a sort of jig or hornpipe opposite each other; and the sun shone down on two madmen instead of one.

Her latest musical "Entertaining a Thought", which was developed at the 2009 Ojai Play write Conference, recently received a Jim Henson Foundation Grant and a 2009-2010 UNIMA "Citation of Excellence in the Art Of Puppetry".