broody
Example Sentences
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Lucifer seemed likely to trounce broody hero Dream initially — until he asked, “What kills hope?”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2023
The pink-hued Warner Bros. movie was pitted against Christopher Nolan’s broody “Oppenheimer” in the cinematic standoff now known as “Barbenheimer.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023
Every sneaker-staring, guitar-hugging kid with a broody set of love songs who wants to stand up and play, drifts into this city.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023
When British boy band One Direction, assembled on British talent show “The X Factor” in 2010, disassembled in early 2016, many assumed that beautiful, broody Zayn Malik would be the group’s breakout star.
From Washington Post • May 23, 2022
Frightful was too broody to notice what was going on below her, but not 426.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.