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
They brood over the story of Linear B, an ancient Greek script thought indecipherable until the 1950s.
From Slate • Sep. 1, 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
The gift was always there, but he began to question it, doubt it, brood over it.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
