Example Sentences

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And finding that a chef will brood over your remarks for months, even years, is an unavoidable fact of the job.

From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2015

I will brood in my basement with a permanent grimace hoping that HBO will make a Mass Effect series.

From The Verge • Nov. 6, 2014

Over all will brood the watchful care of the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

Still other men will brood over every step of a battle, with remorse for their own inadequacy, or for having participated in killing.

From Time Magazine Archive

I dwell upon this dream of ill Whose changing scenes I viewed, And on the startling horror still My troubled thoughts will brood.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)