How to Use brook in a Sentence

brook

1 of 2 noun
Definition of brooknext
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  • The fly-and-worm is at its best in the quick-water pockets of late-spring brooks.
    — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
  • She was buried in Fairview Cemetery, just across the brook from their house in Hyde Park.
    — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
  • The hillsides around the brook are filled with foundations of all shapes and sizes.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 8 Apr. 2018
  • The trail parallels the brook, which after good spring rains will draw you with sounds of the falls.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
  • She’s lost so much, and is jumping from stone to stone in a roaring brook.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2021
  • The 10-foot-wide paved path with blue stone shoulders would run along the brook’s southern banks.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • The brook has coursed through northeast Ohio since the retreat of the glaciers, say the folks at the Doan Brook Partnership.
    — cleveland, 14 May 2021
  • My favorite was a little babbling brook that came out of the side of the mountain.
    — Kelly Cannon, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The number of trout/char species stocked in Utah: Tiger, splake, rainbow, lake, cutthroat, brown and brook.
    — Jessica Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 26 July 2022
  • Dozens of gallons of acid flowed into a nearby brook and down a three-mile stretch of the North River.
    — Charlie McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2021
  • Rainbow, brook and tiger trout are plopped Into the mountain lakes.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 July 2021
  • After dinner, Terry went to a small brook to wash his mess kit.
    — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Jesus pointed downstream, where a log lay across the brook.
    — Jay Martel, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • Noisli can simulate the sound of a café or a babbling brook.
    — David Pierce, WSJ, 3 June 2018
  • Then as now, the shelter was a lean-to perched high on concrete pilings in a glade hemmed by a curving brook.
    — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
  • The isolated location, the light, the chortling brook in the backyard—perfect.
    — Benjamin Rasmussen, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020
  • There are rustic side trails between the brook and path visitors can use to avoid most of the wet areas.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2019
  • In September my whole family walks up the back field again to a little alcove in the trees by the brook.
    — Hazlitt, 14 Dec. 2022
  • There are a mile and a half of walking paths along the brook, as well as pedestrian bridges and an amphitheater.
    — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
  • An upper level skywalk crosses a brook and connects to one wing of the house.
    — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Hill was found two days later in the snow, alongside a tree-shaded brook just outside Salzburg.
    — al, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The sound soother offers eight relaxing choices to lull you to sleep, from white noise to rain, ocean and a babbling brook.
    — Lauren Levy, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2021
  • The trail follows the north side of the brook and then goes deep into the Salmon River State Forest before hooking up with the old mill road near the falls.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 15 May 2018
  • Anglers who consume brook and brown trout caught in the Monroe County creek should do so no more than once a month.
    — Laura Schulte, Journal Sentinel, 7 July 2022
  • Anglers on area streams are reporting brook and brown trout.
    — Star Tribune, 3 June 2021
  • Warm Lake is one of the few places in Idaho that contains all three, and bull-brook hybrids are common when the two species overlap.
    — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 19 Feb. 2018
  • The cellulite over their asses shone with a brook’s babbling glimmer.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The grounds, with barn and outbuildings, also include a brook and gardens.
    — Courant Community, 11 July 2017
  • Wildman said the stairs will encourage visitors to use the brook.
    — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 18 Nov. 2019
  • Those creeks now are full of brook and rainbow trout introduced for sport fishing.
    — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
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brook

2 of 2 verb
  • I will not brook insults from my own employees.
  • The friendly staff is likely to tell you what the trout (rainbow, brook, and brown) are biting.
    — Jennifer Bradley Franklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2018
  • The monument lies along the pristine east branch of the Penobscot River and is home to lynx, bears, brook trout and moose.
    — Susan Levine, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Pick from six sounds: rain, brook, ocean, thunder, white noise, or summer night.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 11 Jan. 2019
  • Word to the wise, though: New England’s islanders brook no foolishness.
    — Will Grunewald, Outside Online, 18 June 2020
  • But Holmes was no slouch: a facile mythmaker who brooked no dissent and presided over the workplace from hell.
    — Stephen Phillips, SFChronicle.com, 22 June 2018
  • The bonus brook and brown trout are surprising fishermen.
    — cleveland.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Like brook and brown trout, the rainbow’s lifestyle requires clean, flowing water in streams, rivers or ponds.
    — John Bordsen, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
  • Warm Lake is a unique fishery, home to rainbow trout, Kokanee and all three Idaho char species — brook, bull and Mackinaw trout.
    — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 9 July 2018
  • Keenan said Howard’s penchant for pursuing the truth brooked no obstacles.
    — Mark Woolsey, ajc, 30 Jan. 2020
  • The money will be used to enhance road crossings and streambanks to reduce the impact of sediment on brook trout habitats.
    — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Republicans in their states are fiercely loyal to Trump and would not brook dissent.
    — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2020
  • Anglers must catch and release all four species of the state’s wild trout, or at least six of the eight total species in Arizona: Gila, Apache, brown, brook, rainbow, grayling, cutthroat, and tiger trout.
    — Erin Stone, azcentral, 25 May 2020
  • And the world’s second biggest economy brooks no dissent.
    — The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2019
  • Their chants and attacks on government buildings broke taboos in a system that brooks little dissent.
    — Erin Cunningham, Houston Chronicle, 1 Jan. 2018
  • But look more closely: These posters brook no opposition.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 9 Oct. 2017
  • Foreign policy appears to be one of the few areas where Mr. Trump is willing to brook some difference of opinion.
    — Carl Hulse, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2019
  • For action on smaller splake, rainbow trout, and brook trout, smaller jigs tipped with shrimp, meal worms, or wax worms have proven highly effective.
    — Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2017
  • Ramesh, similarly, thinks that Bollywood would be wise to heed a newly aware public that will brook no offense.
    — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
  • These conditions do not hold in North Korea, which brooks no dissent and is willing to let hundreds of thousands of its citizens starve to ensure the regime's survival.
    — Jonathan Cristol, CNN, 9 May 2017
  • The state of New Hampshire, for example, has concluded that climate change could reduce the numbers of ski days in the state by as much as 20 percent and nearly wipe out rainbow, brook and brown trout fishing.
    — Michael Casey, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017
  • Some other species found are largemouth bass, brown bullhead, white catfish, chain pickerel, brook trout, brown trout and rainbow trout, according to ctfishfinder.com.
    — Frank Cohen, courant.com, 17 May 2017
  • The protesters’ chants and attacks on government buildings have broken taboos in a system that brooks little dissent.
    — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
  • In addition to the whimsical topiary figures, the nearly one-acre gated site has a swimming pool with a waterfall and brook, an outdoor kitchen and an art studio.
    — Neal J. Leitereg and Lauren Beale, latimes.com, 6 July 2019
  • For months now, the government has refused to brook any political settlement, framing the protests as a law and order issue and putting the onus on the city's beleaguered police force to bring them under control.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
  • In a region where leaders brook little dissent, the country of 12 million became a place of free speech and political contestation.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
  • At this degree of sensitivity, fingertips can find discontinuities the mind may not be able to brook.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
  • But empires do not usually brook the emergence of plausible competitors.
    — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 17 May 2022
  • McWhorter brooks no condescension toward the Valley Girl.
    — Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 15 May 2017
  • Not only is Lendl an ideal coach, who will brook no immaturity and has a track record of making good players great; Lendl, too, knows about the burden that comes with expectation and taking longer than preferred to break through.
    — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018

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