BROODING in a Sentence

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127 example sentences for BROODING, such as:

1. Don't sit at home brooding all day.
2. Don't brood too much and just let it be.
3. It's no use to brood over one's past mistakes.
4. Marija sat for a minute or two, brooding somberly.
5. The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.

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 Meanings and Examples of BROODING
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brooding
 a.  engaged in or showing deep thought about something that makes one sad or worried;
Classic Sentence: (117 in 8 pages)
1  She was no longer the listless creature who had lived at his side in a state of sullen self-absorption, but a mysterious alien presence, an evil energy secreted from the long years of silent brooding.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
2  There was an air of studied and determined cheerfulness about the whole family which brought a colder chill to Scarlett's bones than the bitterness of Mimosa or the deathly brooding of Pine Bloom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  And she could only stare speechless at his brooding face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
4  Her brooding look, as of a mind withdrawn yet not averted, seemed to Mr. Rosedale full of a subtle encouragement.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
5  He who had had to subsist on mere fugitive glances, looks winged in flight and swiftly lost under covert, now found her eyes settling on him with a brooding intensity that fairly dazzled him.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10
6  Her opinionation seemed dead; she had no apparent desire for escape; her brooding centered on Hugh.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  She slipped back into brooding upon the habituality of the house.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  And so too, all the added moodiness which always afterwards, to the very day of sailing in the Pequod on the present voyage, sat brooding on his brow.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 41. Moby Dick.
9  When he was out hunting, he used to go into the empty log house and sit there, brooding.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
10  Marija sat for a minute or two, brooding somberly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 28
11  Montcalm lingered long and melancholy on the strand where he had been left by his companion, brooding deeply on the temper which his ungovernable ally had just discovered.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 17
12  At such moments it would not have been difficult to have fancied the dusky savage the Prince of Darkness brooding on his own fancied wrongs, and plotting evil.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
13  And they were cut off from their own class by the brooding, obstinate, shut-up nature of Sir Geoffrey, their father, whom they ridiculed, but whom they were so sensitive about.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
14  But his silent, brooding insistence that it should be so was hard for Clifford to bear up against.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  One afternoon, as she sat brooding, watching the water bubbling coldly in John's Well, the keeper had strode up to her.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
Example Sentence:
1  Extroverts prefer lively conversation to brooding on the meaning of life.
2  The same heavy, brooding silence descended on them.
3  Don't sit at home brooding all day.
4  I walked fast till I got warm, and then I walked slowly to enjoy and analyse the species of pleasure brooding for me in the hour and situation.
5  It's no use to brood over one's past mistakes.
6  Only this insects produce one brood a year, whereas others produce seven or eight ones a year in our research.
7  He picked out another nestling from the young brood, and again sailed away.
8  Extrovert prefer lively conversation to brood on the meaning of life.
9  Don't brood too much and just let it be.
10  Civil war has chased Fatima Ghorab and her brood of some two dozen women and children across Syria in search of safe havens that keep disappearing in the booms of artillery shells.