has been brooding
- present perfect progressive of brood (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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A scientist who thought up this murky question, and has been brooding over it, is Biologist Raymond B. Cowles of the University of California at Los Angeles.
From Time Magazine Archive
Germany has been brooding about her mines for years.
From Time Magazine Archive
She has Valencia all to herself; and Elsley, in spite of the dark fancies over which he has been brooding, is better behaved, on the whole, than usual.
From Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Kingsley, Charles
The pity for Jonathan, the horror which he experienced, the whole fearful mystery of his diary, and the fear that has been brooding over me ever since, all came in a tumult.
From Dracula by Stoker, Bram
All day long she has been brooding miserably over her lover's danger, and dwelling with foolish persistency upon future dangers born of her terrified imagination.
From Rossmoyne by Unknown
