have been brooding
- present perfect progressive of brood.
Example Sentences
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“Writing comes from silent anxiety, the stuff you don’t know you’re really brooding about and when you start to write you realize you have been brooding about it, but not consciously. It’s terribly mysterious.”
From Seattle Times ● May 20, 2023
I have been brooding over death a lot lately because of my advanced age and the precarious state of the world.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 27, 2021
But at the same time, some football fans on the Web have been brooding that the speech on jobs will somehow force television to skimp on pregame videos of brain-rattling tackles from last season.
From New York Times ● Sep. 8, 2011
It became one of those symbolic agitations that arouse a whole people who have been brooding over their wrongs to a furious defense of their rights.
From Time Magazine Archive
"You have been brooding over it too long."
From The Destroyer A Tale of International Intrigue by Stevenson, Burton Egbert
