How to Use brood in a Sentence

brood

1 of 2 noun

• 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
• Two different groups or broods of cicadas will emerge across multiple states this year in the first emergence of its kind in 221 years.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2024
• But this spring, two broods of more than a trillion cicadas will make their debut above the soil across the Midwest and Southeast in an event that has not happened in more than two centuries.
  — Solcyré Burga, TIME, 12 Apr. 2024

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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
• Adopting a new fandom also helped cement local pride and friendships, including a buddy who taught me to love baseball’s brooding pace.
  — Steven Leckart, New York Times, 5 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024