brood over
Example Sentences
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But they act out their past more than they brood over it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 5, 2025
So you just brood over it and have real honest conversations every night?
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
They brood over the story of Linear B, an ancient Greek script thought indecipherable until the 1950s.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2021
The introduction of these French intellectuals, as well as the narrator’s own reading, allows him to brood over the revolutionary ideas of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Marx, Sartre and others.
From New York Times ● Feb. 22, 2021
Once they were settled in, he didn’t allow them to brood over their circumstances.
From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman
