How to Use brood in a Sentence

brood

1 of 2 noun
Definition of broodnext
Synonyms for broodnext
  • Mrs. Smith took her brood to church every Sunday.
  • Ready to keep up with Kim and the rest of her brood with The Kardashians?
    — Brittany Vincent, SELF, 20 May 2022
  • The couple did their best to save while raising their brood.
    — Refinery29 Team, refinery29.com, 23 Feb. 2023
  • Prince William and his brood know how to have a royally good time!
    — Leah Simpson, PEOPLE.com, 18 June 2022
  • Females nest on the ground and will produce a brood of one to three birds and sometimes up to five.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Some of the states that will see both broods in 2024 are Illinois and Indiana.
    — Sydney Borchers, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The youngest of the brood, Jasiah is an eighth grader who stars for a team coached by his father.
    — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • Arrived wailing into this world as the fourth in a brood of eight.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • James Van Der Beek stays plenty busy with his brood of six!
    — Katie Mannion, Peoplemag, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The rest of the brood will enjoy delights like breakfast for two and pancake mix to take home.
    — Spencer Whaley, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • One brood of cicadas has been waiting a long time to emerge; now is their time.
    — Joyce Orlando, The Courier-Journal, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Check out a few photos of our cover stars with the youngest adorable member of the Bailey brood.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Here's where cicada broods will emerge for first time in over 200 years.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Horse breeders and riders alike will also be able to house their brood in the home’s eight-stall barn.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Borrow a Moke electric, open-air vehicle to tote the whole brood around town in a fun and unique way.
    — Alesandra Dubin, Woman's Day, 19 May 2022
  • Even the Stark brood got to chase cats or swoon over princes for a few episodes before getting put through the wringer by the Lannisters.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
  • Nick Cannon is getting ready to add baby No. 11 to his brood.
    — Glenn Rowley, Billboard, 3 Nov. 2022
  • More interested in my own brood than the trappings of fame.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Somehow, Lola was more of a movie star than my other friends who got to be godmothers for the rest of the brood.
    — Margareta Magnusson, Fortune, 28 Jan. 2023
  • Rhaenyra does the wrapping as Daemon goes and walks the beach to brood instead of supporting his wife/niece/queen.
    — Omar L. Gallaga, Washington Post, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Should the sperm-toting female die before her brood is laid, the male’s efforts will all be for naught.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • Beatrice, too, has started a brood of her own in recent years.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2022
  • In the meantime, please make plans with other folks for Sunday dinners, which will give you less time to brood.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 18 July 2022
  • The only thing that works is Kate Moyer as the leader of the murderous kid brood and the most evil 12-year-old ever.
    — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 2 Mar. 2023
  • In 2008, David told DeGeneres about his and Victoria's desire to have a large brood.
    — Nicole Briese, PEOPLE.com, 15 July 2022
  • So in the hippie version of stage-mothering, the brood headed to Los Angeles, the land of dreams.
    — Martha Frankel, SPIN, 31 Oct. 2023
  • But one with the express purpose of tracing your brood’s roots overseas?
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But don’t rule out another addition to the rap ruler’s brood.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 11 July 2022
  • Any pair of broods may occasionally overlap and emerge in the same year.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • His Charlie broods, charms, flirts and puts on fake mustaches and hipster hats to pull off his heists.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Feb. 2023
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brood

2 of 2 verb
  • He brooded over his mistake.
  • After the argument, she sat in her bedroom, brooding.
  • But as Democrats brood about a second term, the makeup of the Biden White House in 2025 should loom large.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The word juts out of Drake’s brooding chorus like a Freudian slip.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
  • A lot of players might brood at that, head coach Tara VanDerveer notes.
    — Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Our commute to the power plant could be made on foot, but with a brooding sky like this, the bus is safer.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 29 June 2023
  • The episode broke up long, brooding scenes of grief and almost-grief with a healthy dose of very Riverdale-y moments.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The falcons were spotted this spring brooding in the Roland Park water tower in the 4200 block of Roland Ave.
    — Lillian Reed, baltimoresun.com, 3 June 2019
  • Once brooding is done, the female octopus dies around the time her eggs hatch.
    — Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Machine gun fast hi-hats, a crisp snare, and deep, brooding 808 drums create the platform for Swae Lee to cruise on the beat.
    — Wandera Hussein, Billboard, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The male seahorses ‘get pregnant’ and brood the babies in their pouch.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • This album is the sound of four confident men with nothing left to prove and lots of long, dark, brooding songs to share.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Some brood their eggs in a pouch, some in their mouths, some tuck them behind their pectoral fins—that’s called armpit brooding.
    — Jennifer Hayes, National Geographic, 23 May 2019
  • Her tendency to brood, to ask too many questions, to stay with the same thoughts all day long, fuels my writing.
    — Kyoko Mori, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2019
  • That brings the Kardashian West brood up to four, including siblings North and Saint.
    — Vogue, 2 Jan. 2019
  • The large swans, which have eight-foot wingspans and snow-white feathers, require cold, clear, pristine lakes and ponds to breed and brood their downy gray cygnets.
    — Andrew McKean, Outdoor Life, 10 May 2023
  • Alas, it was widely regarded as far too bland and twee to do justice to the brooding Man in Black, and the show flopped and closed within six weeks.
    — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Octopuses do not eat while brooding their eggs—a process that can sometimes take years in the cold, deep ocean.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And besides, my sister was always brooding for a fight.
    — Shannon Lell, Longreads, 6 Sep. 2017
  • In the now-iconic scene, a brooding Darcy walks across the grounds of his Pemberley estate after a quick swim.
    — Catherine Duncan, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2024
  • From this attitude sprung a sound that is brooding yet upbeat.
    — Josh Coe, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
  • The penguins went so far as to attempt to brood a rock before a zookeeper gave them a real egg to care for, which soon hatched Tango.
    — Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 11 July 2022
  • Does the animal instinctively know that the warm waters will speed up the brooding process?
    — Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Cillian Murphy, who played the brooding scientist at the center of the film, was named best actor in a drama.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 8 Jan. 2024
  • So fitting that the dark, brooding dad is saved essentially by his child.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Anna’s normally brood two to three times a year, each time producing two tiny eggs about the size of jelly beans.
    — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Bass holds his son with one arm, lifting him as Alexander turns his head to deliver a brooding side-eye look.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Almost all presidents brood in private about the insults aimed at them.
    — Edwin L. Battistella, Time, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Tape might as well be the love interest, or the quippy sidekick who dies so the protagonist can have something to brood over.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 July 2023
  • When emoting and brooding are needed, Daniel Craig portrays James Bond.
    — John Pearley Huffman, Car and Driver, 20 Feb. 2020

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