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

It was a still, hot morning; oppressive as though a storm were brooding.

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram

Events were brooding of which France and England knew nothing, and which could not have been exorcised away by any resolutions of a conclave of diplomatists.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin