brooder
Example Sentences
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Only Elordi, variously treated like beefcake and brooder, seems lost trying to square Julius’ early vulnerability with the final act’s hopeful romance.
From Los Angeles Times
Abdel is more of a brooder, at least for a while — Benssalah has a clenched, melancholy watchfulness that holds your attention in the midst of all the noise — but eventually he starts yelling, too.
From New York Times
On a recent weekday, Ben White, manager of the coho salmon recovery program at Warm Springs, gazed into a tank boiling with frisky, 2-pound brooders used for spawning and sighed.
From Los Angeles Times
It’s partly hearing his native Welsh accent, when we are used to his American dialects, but mainly that he usually plays brooders, Mason included.
From Los Angeles Times
Palmer was golf’s first man of the people — Arnie’s Army — while Hogan had been known as a brooder who kept to himself.
From Los Angeles Times
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