brooded
Example Sentences
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He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
He brooded over the dwindling supplies of clean water and that too many people were competing for too little of it.
From Salon ● Nov. 14, 2024
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
He narrates his reporting, mumbling inanities like “A Sabbath silence brooded over the mire.”
From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022
“I keep trying to tell him he don’t have to prove a thing, not to us,” Armistead brooded.
From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara
