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Brooks

[ brooks ]

noun

  1. Gwendolyn, 1917–2000, U.S. poet and novelist.
  2. Phillips, 1835–93, U.S. Protestant Episcopal bishop and pulpit orator.
  3. Van Wyck [van , wahyk], 1886–1963, U.S. author and critic.
  4. a male given name.


Brooks

/ brʊks /

noun

  1. BrooksGeraldine1955FAustralianLITERATURE: novelist Geraldine . born 1955, Australian writer. Her novels include March (2005), which won the Pulitzer prize
  2. BrooksMel1926MUSTHEATRE: comedy writerTHEATRE: actorFILMS AND TV: director Mel , real name Melvyn Kaminsky . born 1926, US comedy writer, actor, and film director. His films include The Producers (1968), Blazing Saddles (1974), High Anxiety (1977), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1996)
  3. BrooksTroyal) Garth1962MUSMUSIC: country singerMUSIC: songwriter ( Troyal ) Garth. born 1962, US country singer and songwriter; his bestselling records include Ropin' the Wind (1991) and Scarecrow (2001)


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Example Sentences

When Robert Haile pulled his own weapon, Brooks continued his stick-up.

My old boss, T. Brooks Ellis, the director of the Human Genome Project.

Brooks later joked of Obama, “[The President] said, David, which sort of wine would you like me to turn your water into?”

Brooks resigned his seat but was immediately returned by his district in a special election.

The only difference was the writing staff was Neil Simon, Mel Brooks, and Carl Reiner, and they started writing on Monday.

By a voice he saith: Hear me, ye divine offspring, and bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters.

I do not know what I think; all my thoughts seem whirling round as leaves do in brooks in the time of the spring rains.

In the first third of my road, which lay along the coast, I counted about thirty-two brooks which we were obliged to walk through.

If the field be large, considerable though temporary brooks may be created, which cut channels perhaps a foot in depth.

She had no patterns to copy; but her imagination wandered through the green fields and by the murmuring brooks of her rural home.

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