Example Sentences

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“Heathcliff was brooding but she said, ‘What if he wasn’t brooding?’

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2026

This was years before "Finding Forrester" or "Henry Fool;" before scribe Jughead was brooding in "Riverdale" — even before "Poetic Justice" or "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle."

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2022

Meanwhile, an hour south in Daytona Beach, the Elephant was brooding.

From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2022

The trilogy’s Italian dialogue was dubbed for the English-speaking market, and the action was brooding and slow, with clichéd close-ups of gunfighters’ eyes.

From New York Times • Jul. 6, 2020

She plucked the bird on the roof of Alice’s wigwam and carried the meal to the box where Chup was brooding Oksi.

From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George