brood
noun
a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
has been brooding
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present perfect progressiveof brood (3rd person singular).present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Germany has been brooding about her mines for years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"I've noticed that he has been brooding and preoccupied of late, not at all like himself," said Douglas.
From Michael O'Halloran by Gene Stratton-Porter
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 Bram Stoker
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 Charles Kingsley
