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
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
He has been brooding and brooding and snatching at straws.
From We Three by Henry Hutt
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
