brooded
Example Sentences
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He brooded over his verses, revising them for years.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
He brooded over the dwindling supplies of clean water and that too many people were competing for too little of it.
From Salon • Nov. 14, 2024
These widely circulated comments are often received in isolation, to be interpreted without context and brooded over in silence.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2024
“My problem,” he writes, “was that I couldn’t completely dismiss such experiences with laughter. I brooded and tried to make sense of it beyond that provided by our ancestral wisdom.”
From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2021
And when I brooded upon the cultural barrenness of black life, I wondered if clean, positive tenderness, love, honor, loyalty, and the capacity to remember were native with man.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
