broody
Example Sentences
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Stewart’s non-gender-conforming streak started to surface in her portrayal of broody heroine Bella Swan in the “Twilight” saga, which the actor said in a January interview with Variety had a “very Gothic, gay inclination.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 15, 2024
The pink-hued Warner Bros. movie was pitted against Christopher Nolan’s broody “Oppenheimer” in the cinematic standoff now known as “Barbenheimer.”
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 24, 2023
Every sneaker-staring, guitar-hugging kid with a broody set of love songs who wants to stand up and play, drifts into this city.
From BBC • Jun. 2, 2023
“He’s just this broody, emotionless science man, but every two or three episodes, something happens, and they just make him feel all the emotions.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 20, 2022
She was tucked under the bow, her eyes calm and broody.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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