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Definition of the day : « brooding »

  • verb agonize over
Example sentences :
  • Christopher stood silent, as if brooding on what he had seen.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • The birds, silent all in the brooding of night, rise ghostly to right and left.
  • Extract from : « The Forest » by Stewart Edward White
  • He sat with his head bent and his elbow on his knee; brooding, brooding, brooding.
  • Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
  • So she prepared for the possible future, not by brooding on it, but by doing the work of the present.
  • Extract from : « Heather and Snow » by George MacDonald
  • Kay said nothing, but a brooding anger began to fill his heart.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
  • Brooding, sad and deep, seemed to me to hold his inmost mind.
  • Extract from : « A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
  • The other men eyed him with a brooding jealousy as they puffed on their pipes.
  • Extract from : « L'Assommoir » by Emile Zola
  • While brooding, they should be well fed with corn and water, which must be placed near them, so that they may eat at pleasure.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • Helen replied that she had no intention of brooding on such a dull subject.
  • Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
  • Again he ceased speaking, and relapsed into a brooding attitude.
  • Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum