brood

How to use brood in a sentence

He returned in ten minutes or so, having sat for that period behind a neighbouring tree to brood over his circumstances.

What can be prettier than a brood of chickens with a good motherly hen, like the one in this picture!

What will you be, some day, when Posey lays eggs, and brings out a brood of little chickens?

A portly woman, whom Isabel knew to be the mother of a brood, was far more anxious to please.

ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTON

Finally only one duckling remained in the middle of the river, probably at once the strongest and most foolish of the brood.

There lay the callow brood marked out by Nature and man, for her ministrations.

The young brood of grasshoppers had all been swept away in the flood, or perished in the long, cold storm.

An elderly hen, that has counted its brood seven times, on each occasion finding one or two missing, not more perturbed.

In the upper region of the air there is eternal calm and sunshine, while the clouds brood and crash below.

ALONEMARION HARLAND

The Reform Bill, in its ultimate effects, has crushed the brood whom it warmed into life.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985