brood

Example Sentences

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The dwelling offers ample room for a Kardahsian-Jenner-sized brood, boasting eight bedrooms and eight full bathrooms, including an attached guest suite with a private entrance, kitchenette, sitting area, and courtyard.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 30, 2026

The actor noted that the family had embraced an abundance of wildlife on the ranch, and added pigs, chickens, horses, dogs, and cats to their brood.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 10, 2026

While you meditate you brood on the impermanence of all things, including yourself, and envision yourself as a corpse, lying out on a bier, all life gone.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

By signaling only when an infection cannot be controlled, brood ensure that the colony responds only to genuine threats.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025

The trees brood over you, the streams don’t babble—they growl, and each call of an animal seems like a dire warning of imminent danger.

From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz