brooded
Example Sentences
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He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
These widely circulated comments are often received in isolation, to be interpreted without context and brooded over in silence.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024
“My problem,” he writes, “was that I couldn’t completely dismiss such experiences with laughter. I brooded and tried to make sense of it beyond that provided by our ancestral wisdom.”
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2021
Most of the time, however, they waited and brooded.
From Salon • Jun. 14, 2020
As Shin worked and waited, he brooded about how the other prisoners were oblivious to the fence and the opportunities that lay beyond it.
From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden
