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
To have brooded and pined, and made myself miserable and well-nigh broken my heart day by day for a man that was to prove so utterly unworthy as this!
From Kate Coventry An Autobiography by G. J. Whyte-Melville
She may have brooded over them at intervals, but, like Noah's bird, found no resting place.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 by Aaron Walker
When I first had the idea, I did not want to, but now I have brooded over it so long that I simply must.
From Vistas of New York by Brander Matthews
But how strange that he should have brooded for eight moons over his passion without ever having considered how it might appear to the object of it!
From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Calvin Thomas
