brood
noun
a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
have brooded
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present perfectof brood.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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For a long time Marine flyers have brooded over their treatment by the Navy, which has declined to give them the kind of a job they crave.
From Time Magazine Archive
No work can be great without their manifestation; unless they have brooded with their silvery wings over its progress to perfection; and in exact proportion to their manifestation will be its greatness.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Had there been in her make-up any inherent weakness of mentality, Hazel might perhaps have brooded herself into neurasthenia.
From North of Fifty-Three by Anton Otto Fischer
He had been severely shocked, and he might have brooded over it all the afternoon, if a discovery had not startled him to activity.
From Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life by Stewart Edward White
John dismissed them both, thinking that the Wanderobbo must have brooded over some old grievance until it had turned his brain.
From Settlers and Scouts by Herbert Strang
