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
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
Manderley is the Cornwall estate of Maxim de Winter, Rebecca’s brooding widower.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
Ellidyr, too, took his place again, his face dark and brooding.
From "The Black Cauldron" by Lloyd Alexander
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
