brood
noun
a number of young produced or hatched at one time; a family of offspring or young.
were brooding
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past progressiveof brood.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Haim: 'We'd be taken more seriously if we were brooding and aggressive'
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2023
By the turn of the century, sociologists and political philosophers, students of urbanization and the power of the press were brooding about the implications of mediated experience.
From Time Magazine Archive
Her silences were brooding, insular, and yet he felt a connection to her.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
There is a sullenness in our present relations, as if both parties were brooding over the past, and expecting an opportunity in the future.
From Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief by Frederick Sleigh Roberts
The house stood squarely blocked with cobalt shadows about it, and the hills were brooding in blue-black immensities—but over the valley was a flooding wash of platinum and silver.
From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey
