Example Sentences

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How can his colleagues have brooked such a thing?

From Washington Times • Apr. 13, 2021

Critics say the “owner” families have brooked no challenge or contradiction and have surrounded themselves with kowtowing managers.

From New York Times • Jan. 7, 2015

I have brooked his insult; I have even bowed to his applause.

From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

They would not have brooked the law's delay.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

“A man’s marriage,” he answered, “is his own affair, I would have brooked no interference from my congregation.”

From The Little Minister by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)