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Meanings of brood in English
Synonyms
Examples for "loom"
Examples for "loom"
1
Environmental worries also loom large, particularly with regard to water usage rights.
2
Opinion: This month two deals loom large, but for very different reasons.
3
But experts said a government shutdown could loom again at that time.
4
A showdown vote on calling witnesses could loom later in the week.
5
Tougher tests loom immediatelyafter with a road date at Colorado State andBYU.
1
The sea level is very high: we hover over drowned continents, probably.'
2
Karl set the air car to hover they could assess the situation.
3
The spirits in the shape of beautiful young girls hover over us.
4
He passes strange weapons that hover in midair; torchesflicker on the wall.
5
The mountains began to hover on the edge of the young world.
1
The standard of value only becomes important when under settled conditions of society long-term contracts bulk large in economic transactions.
2
Its commercial totals do not bulk large today, but the old trail itself was a thing titanic in its historic value.
3
Bulking large at home, he was the best-known representative of Hawaii abroad.
4
The evil in things always bulks large in our imaginations.
5
For instance, the mountain which we chose as a landmark bulks large behind us.
Portuguese
estar hospedado Catalan
afligir-se Usage of brood in English
1
This year they have gone one better, with a brood of four.
2
Spreading a brood among several figs will have one of two consequences.
3
He decided to let her brood on it till, say, next week.
4
With the arsenate you apply it once and kill all the brood.
5
The keeper opens the two center partitions to examine the brood cells.
6
Not quite sure what the Fowlers will make of her brood, though.
7
If she went straight home, which was her impulse, she'd just brood.
8
It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood.
9
The fall brood of flies appears shortly before the first heavy frost.
10
Donagh: The whole brood and tribe of them went a month back.
11
It was not in him, to sit and brood over lost happiness.
12
The thrifty housewife sees to it that her brood are well fed.
13
Kirsten Johnstone caught up with Annabel to talk about the expanding brood.
14
You see I brood continually over the murder of poor Victoria Vane.
15
Indeed, what escapes the depredations of the ants promises a plenteous brood.
16
Staying out of my way as I brood in the command center.
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Translations for brood
Catalan
Portuguese
Brood through the time
Brood across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common