Example Sentences

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Elsewhere, there are brooding characters and mists, cold gods and references to the Bible.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2021

The landscapes here are rocky and windswept, and the skies are brooding.

From Forbes • Oct. 23, 2014

The Leeds supporters are brooding, wondering how a team who were champions in three consecutive seasons from 2007-09 have come to be languishing so low in the table.

From The Guardian • Jul. 15, 2011

This year lots of Swedes, Danes and Finns are brooding over self-betterment.

From Time Magazine Archive

Something is happening to me that is only excusable in a slave; day and night my brain is haunted by evil thoughts, and feelings such as I never knew before are brooding in my soul.

From The Wife, and other stories by Garnett, Constance