stewing

Example Sentences

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But Auriemma suggested that he’d been stewing since before the opening tipoff.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

"I wrote it on Monday because I'd been stewing in anger about ICE," Terrell posted on Instagram, adding he was stunned by the reception it received.

From Barron's • Jan. 29, 2026

It speaks to our pickle as consumers that I have been stewing over this two-faced selling approach for weeks and am still not sure if I should want to stop it.

From Slate • Oct. 9, 2025

We subsidize highways to the tune of $32 billion a year, only to sit on them stewing.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2025

It felt like all the tubes led to one central place in which something evil sat, stewing.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson