brooding
Example Sentences
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They are forever setting on nests hatching out chicks, brooding and clucking and attacking anything that comes close.
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"The mood is almost brooding. There is a deep sense of betrayal from the Americans. And less trust in the Europeans. And now all this distraction. It's not great."
From BBC
When I came back, Oliver was sitting in a booth by the window, brooding as he stared at the table.
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He was awkward, brooding and uneasy outside his eccentric family.
Robert Duvall was a distinguished and prolific screen actor who lent a brooding intensity and grizzled authority to seven decades of American film-making.
From BBC
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