brooder

Example Sentences

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Only Elordi, variously treated like beefcake and brooder, seems lost trying to square Julius’ early vulnerability with the final act’s hopeful romance.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 25, 2025

And she’s not much of a brooder these days, either.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2021

Stulbarg is an excellent brooder, and Hope Davis vamps it up for whatever Evil Gods to whom she sacrifices incense to get into character as Gina Baxter, the scheming Lady MacBeth to Stuhlbarg's mobster.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2020

Harry has a puppet master, a brooder named Campbell, who happens to be a cousin of Cassandra and Allie, as well as a total creep.

From The New Yorker • May 22, 2019

Chickens were in the brooder house, and the garden was in and we eded.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck