brood
Example Sentences
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He was awkward, brooding and uneasy outside his eccentric family.
Robert Duvall was a distinguished and prolific screen actor who lent a brooding intensity and grizzled authority to seven decades of American film-making.
From BBC
“Heathcliff was brooding but she said, ‘What if he wasn’t brooding?’
From Los Angeles Times
On a surface level, I think Brontë created an archetype that has lived on — the brooding, possessive self-made man type.
From Los Angeles Times
The actor noted that the family had embraced an abundance of wildlife on the ranch, and added pigs, chickens, horses, dogs, and cats to their brood.
From MarketWatch
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