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
It came straight from Belichick, who for all of his legendary demandingness does not brood over losses and moves on to the next problem.
From Washington Post • Jan. 3, 2020
He would have liked to sit quietly for a moment, brood over what Miss Lavinia had told him.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
