brood
noun
a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
had brooded
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past perfectof brood.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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According to some accounts, he had brooded over a demotion from sergeant after military censors intercepted a letter deemed to be critical of the conduct of the war.
From New York Times ● Nov. 9, 2018
For days the evil mountain had brooded, had hardly puffed a breath into the sky.
From Time Magazine Archive
Months ago, the President had pondered the grave new world, had brooded on the dread possibility of a United States of Germany which would have terrific economic striking power.*
From Time Magazine Archive
All summer long John Kennedy had brooded, waiting for Nikita Khrushchev to make good on his threat to get rid of "the bone in my throat" -- partitioned Berlin.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was, it occurred to him, his father’s son, and now he brooded in the same spindle-back Windsor chair his father had brooded in.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
