brook

As we climbed the terraced pools of the West Kill, I concentrated on keeping my cast short and precise until I caught my first brook trout, or “brookie.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Large-scale protests are rare in Vietnam, where the communist authorities brook little dissent.

From Barron's ● Jun. 24, 2026

People kept stopping to talk to him, although they mostly made small murmuring noises, like the fake brook that runs through a suburban shopping center.

From Salon ● Sep. 14, 2025

Mr Lister told Radio Wales Breakfast he often visited the brook as it is a good spot for photographing wildlife in the area.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2025

I always hold my breath while I go, since it clatters into the can like a brook down a mountainside.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

It is a remarkable climb-down, underscoring the difficulty of spurring the transition to electric vehicles even in an authoritarian country that brooks little dissent.

From Barron's ● May 19, 2026

His strictly regulated factory model brooks no challenges from his workers, and he employs an enormous security force to snuff out the merest whisper of pro-union sentiment.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 29, 2026

The mountains and valleys, the rivers and brooks, the occasional deer or bear are as much a part of the mise-en-scène as the series’ complicated, yet essentially straightforward heroes and villains.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025

The response of three straight wins when the pressure is on brooks no argument about their stomach for this fight.

From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2024

From various and uncountable tributaries, in creeks and brooks of color and motion, the parts of this river had joined, become one mother current, and flowed on.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Critics say Kainerugaba has brooked little opposition in the country, acting decisively against anyone perceived as a threat to his father's administration.

From BBC ● Jan. 30, 2026

Gottheimer quickly admitted to fabricating the post but brooked no argument over his Boss bona fides.

From Salon ● Dec. 13, 2024

The French thinker Simone Weil brooked no happy tales.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2022

But he also said no dissent would be brooked, urging young people “not to spoil their paths in life” and “not to poison the lives of loved ones.”

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2022

"Yoren is only one man. The Watch shall escort you as far as Winterfell," Mormont announced in a tone that brooked no argument.

From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin

“It doesn’t really matter who wins from that perspective. And there’s just no brooking that divide right now.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 30, 2020

Mr. Douglas developed a reputation for brooking little criticism.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2020

Not brooking even possible party division may pay off.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 26, 2019

Their candidate Jack Brereton sticks with unerring consistency to a handful of talking points, brooking little deviation and plenty of repetition.

From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2017

And now her voice brooking in my ear, in a voice I hardly recognized.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee