brooding
Example Sentences
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"Modern birds aren't 'better' at hatching eggs. Instead, birds living today and oviraptors have a very different way of incubation or, more specifically, brooding," Yang pointed out.
From Science Daily • Mar. 19, 2026
He was awkward, brooding and uneasy outside his eccentric family.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Robert Duvall was a distinguished and prolific screen actor who lent a brooding intensity and grizzled authority to seven decades of American film-making.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
O’Neill resolves the triangular conflict with a combination of religious fervor, metaphoric brooding and scabrous humor.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 15, 2025
Poppy asked if the meal had upset him and he said, “Night brings on a brooding melancholia.”
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
