brood

Start with the gravely voice that rumbles and mumbles, make your eyes as heavy-lidded as possible, add a swaggering shoulder roll and then just brood, baby, brood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

But by early August, the foraging capacity of the colony has increased exponentially, brood are better fed and the emerging workers are substantially larger.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 11, 2026

Before going inside, Duffy pauses to hype up his brood by sharing that none other than Ken Griffin bought one of the original copies of the Constitution to put on public display.

From Salon ● Aug. 23, 2026

If you have your first at 27, or 35, there are simply fewer reproductive years to add to your brood.

From Slate ● Jul. 28, 2026

“Dragons have immense families, too. It would be nice to live long enough to see my great-grandchildren. And it may be that my final test is to raise a brood of superior women and men.”

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep

A poolside interlude channels the tension of distance between two people who were once close: The woman grasps a book but seems primarily absorbed in melancholy; the man broods around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

He listens to Bach on headphones and broods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 3, 2026

In those cases, fledging mass can drop by up to 27%, particularly for broods that hatch later in the breeding season.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 12, 2026

The actor noted that the family had embraced an abundance of wildlife on the ranch, including adding multiple animals to their broods, from pigs and chickens to horses, dogs, and cats.

From MarketWatch ● Jan. 22, 2026

They were broods of virus getting ready to hatch.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

At the time, the face of the Lakers was Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, a moody soul who brooded a hundred times for every forced smile.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2022

He narrates his reporting, mumbling inanities like “A Sabbath silence brooded over the mire.”

From New York Times ● Feb. 14, 2022

Most of the time, however, they waited and brooded.

From Salon ● Jun. 14, 2020

He bent over his desk and brooded upon some papers, glancing now and again with extreme penetration at his guests.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

It has the same horse-shaped head tilted down from the body, the same curled and grasping tail, and in the males a fully enclosed pouch for brooding the young.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

Also waiting — or more accurately, lurking — in the background is the brooding Col.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026

An action-packed supernatural thriller: Netflix’s new No. 1 show, Below, stars Josh Hartnett as a brooding Newfoundlander haunted by something supernatural lurking in the ocean’s depths.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2026

The band’s joyful energy was more suitable for bopping than brooding, and Mr. Casablancas’s detached and distorted delivery is distant from grunge’s anguished growls.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

“He’s in Heaven, with Papa Dios,” Abuela said behind me, startling me out of the brooding sorrow that pressed against my chest.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago