had been brooding
- past perfect progressive of brood.
Example Sentences
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I wouldn't want her to think I was pressuring her or implying that I had been brooding all this time.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 26, 2018
Not Dickens so much, though I’m deeply flattered and embarrassed by the comparison, but I don’t see Dickens as a realist and I had been brooding on the realist novel.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2012
She was Mrs. E. Noel Durant, 61, a retired banker's wife who had been brooding over her health.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, at 52, Hammarskjold had just been re-elected to a five-year term, and for weeks he had been brooding about the disheartening deadlock over disarmament.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lilienthal had been brooding all day over a pending decision by President Truman about expanding the nation’s nuclear arsenal, a $319 million proposition pushed assiduously by the Pentagon.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
