have brooded
- present perfect of brood.
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 Whyte-Melville, G. J.
The latter appears to have brooded over schemes for the establishment of a Republic in South Africa.
From The Great War and How It Arose by Anonymous
You have brooded and speculated over your condition until you have become morbid.
From Somehow Good by De Morgan, William Frend
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 Fischer, Anton Otto
