Example Sentences

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My siblings are unlikely to provide her with one, so I get the full 1,000-watt beam of her broodiness.

From Slate • May 19, 2021

But Mother Nature is nothing if not compelling, and my broodiness sat in my core like an ache.

From The Guardian • Dec. 31, 2016

Cuomo’s dark broodiness, his affinity for suffering, lent him moral gravity.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 2, 2015

Kara Tointon has just the right broodiness as the edgy Evelyn, who is like a comic version of the young mother in Edward Bond's Saved.

From The Guardian • Feb. 10, 2012

The broodiness lifts from Dad’s eyes and Jonah forgets that he’s angry, as I knew he would.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam