brood over
Example Sentences
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But they act out their past more than they brood over it.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2025
So you just brood over it and have real honest conversations every night?
From Salon • Jun. 18, 2023
The introduction of these French intellectuals, as well as the narrator’s own reading, allows him to brood over the revolutionary ideas of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Marx, Sartre and others.
From New York Times • Feb. 22, 2021
Characters brood over events that haven’t yet been explained or refer to people before Roy introduces them.
From Slate • Jun. 19, 2017
At eleven o’clock Adam went to the closed draft-board office to brood over the records of a new batch of boys coming up.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
