broody
Example Sentences
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The camera takes time to adore the young protagonists, to admire their excellent surfaces, to look them straight in their moody, broody, serious eyes.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
"I'm so broody," the 29-year-old tells the BBC Access All podcast.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2025
Pregnant at 23, married not long after, she had endured 14 years of bossy, broody cantankerousness from a man to whom marriage was “a tourniquet I didn’t think we could live without.”
From New York Times • Aug. 16, 2022
Like, they think he’s moody and broody, but also brilliant.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2022
Frightful was too broody to notice what was going on below her, but not 426.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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