How to Use brooding in a Sentence

brooding

adjective

• The grind, for seven years, was the dark and brooding Mad Men.
  — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 14 Oct. 2016
• In this dark and brooding place, justice is a pipe dream.
  — Karen D'souza, The Mercury News, 3 Aug. 2024
• Rumor is, Liev Schreiber is playing a brooding chunk of meat.
  — Kirsten Chuba, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Sep. 2017
• Yet the movie’s plot machinations and brooding tone are at times a little too clever.
  — Pat Padua, kansascity, 8 Mar. 2018
• There was a feeling, throughout the World Cup, of something brooding.
  — SI.com, 15 Feb. 2018
• The view from the main terrace looks out toward the volcano at Rabaul, which cuts a brooding profile across the horseshoe bay.
  — Sophy Roberts, Condé Nast Traveler, 3 May 2018
• But there’s nothing stopping you from dreaming up your own take on the brooding hero.
  — Lauren Young, Smithsonian, 10 Feb. 2017
• But the Senate proved a bad fit for the brooding legislator.
  — Time, 5 June 2018
• In one frame, a slab of darkly brooding sky seems to loom down on a skeletal railing that runs across the shot, cleaving it in half.
  — Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• The land is ancient, primal, brooding; the hotel is modern and therefore at odds with the landscape—and at one with it.
  — Geoff Dyer, GQ, 5 Feb. 2018
• The film’s entire cast of characters serves brooding, creepy looks, but Wednesday Addams is our pick for the big night.
  — Emily Gaynor, Teen Vogue, 23 Oct. 2017
• That sounds brooding, but there’s something buoyant and catchy about Cannon’s work.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Flying onto the Masked Singer stage comes a performer known for his brooding persona.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023
• The shorter brooding time probably reduces the embryo’s risk to predators skulking around to eat the eggs, such as shrimp.
  — Kasha Patel, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Aug. 2023
• The other thing about Faith that makes her different from some of the more brooding, cerebral superheroes on the market?
  — refinery29.com, 5 July 2018
• There’s a nice yin and yang with their vocal pitches as well; IDK is a bit more brooding and smooth while Gunna is higher pitched and emotive.
  — Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 21 June 2024
• Traces of the brooding mass only became evident through a large-scale new seismic study.
  — Fox News, 25 June 2018
• Folks whose marriages are happy tend to sleep better than those who are in conflict with their spouse, or who are lonely and brooding at night.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 8 Sep. 2017
• Set against a brooding, mountainous landscape, the movie evokes the in-between world of ancient myth referenced in the title.
  — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 Feb. 2024
• Pattinson has never looked more brooding, and this is a guy who shot to fame playing a very angsty vampire in the Twilight franchise.
  — Kaitlin Reilly, refinery29.com, 13 Feb. 2020
• Butler had no choice but to imagine what a brooding, faithful gang leader’s lieutenant might be like.
  — Marco Della Cava, USA TODAY, 21 June 2024
• Or at least a bit more variety in tone from the mostly brooding, minor-key songs that populate its first act.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• The production frequently achieves a brooding, brutish beauty, as when Mildred comes face-to-face with Yank.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• To her, death is an inevitable by-product of having lived 99 years, and Elmer and I weren’t particularly close to begin with, so why all the brooding?
  — Steve Trumpeter, chicagotribune.com, 20 July 2019
• The sound is expansive, more reliant on keyboards, sax, and gospel-like female backing singers than on the electric guitars and brooding melodies of his past.
  — Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• Now, the dark and brooding antihero is back and ready for revenge in his own solo spinoff show, aptly titled The Punisher.
  — Cady Lang, Time, 20 Sep. 2017
• As in a small-town noir inspired by the Coen brothers, the mood turns brooding and ominous as paranoia encircles the duo like a tightening noose.
  — Maggie Lee, chicagotribune.com, 8 Feb. 2018
• The vocal is maybe a little too brooding for Nick to really shine, but the song actually translated very well to the award-show stage.
  — Andrew Unterberger, Billboard, 20 Nov. 2017
• Schreiber tends toward brooding, intense performances; Valmont is, or at least should be, a dandy.
  — Jesse Oxfeld, Town & Country, 31 Oct. 2016
• Is there a brooding, shifty fellow dragon rider in this that will pave way for a clear enemies-to-lovers situation?
  — Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 24 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024