How to Use brooding in a Sentence

brooding

adjective
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  • The grind, for seven years, was the dark and brooding Mad Men.
    — Sarah Rense, Esquire, 14 Oct. 2016
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Philo is a brooding hero with a Big Secret, one that involves his former fae lover Vignette (Delevingne).
    — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • Ridged cactus corals are brooding coral, meaning to reproduce, only their sperm -- not the eggs -- are released into the water.
    — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Drawing on this kooky mix of Harajuku, goth, and punk stylings, Uzi is like the brooding antihero in some futuristic manga movie.
    — Chioma Nnadi, Vogue, 18 July 2019
  • Bernthal's on-screen image is more brooding and brawny than corporate boardroom.
    — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 13 June 2018
  • For many of your peers, Scorpio season will feel intensely dark, brooding, and emotional.
    — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 30 Sep. 2018

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