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Meanings of brook in English
Periodically inundated area of low ground having shrubs and trees, with or without the formation of peat.
Usage of brook in English
1
The brook murmured over the stones and the wind rustled the branches.
2
The water I heard is nothing more than a small babbling brook.
3
One of the inhabitants of Novgorod was angling in the brook Chorny.
4
The garden and fields beyond the brook were closed in uncertain darkness.
5
The brook in the chaos of running fire had saved their lives.
6
He kicked and kicked and scrambled and splashed around in the brook.
7
I could not brook it; the insult, the insulter, were too revolting.
8
The first time it landed on the opposite side of the brook.
9
Another bird made itself heard somewhere in the underbrush flanking the brook.
10
She must have been down in the blackberry bushes along the brook.
11
The wind roared through the pines, drowning the roar of the brook.
12
But it is in my mind that the brook will not care.
13
I saw you in the library, twice, and down to the brook.
14
Save for the riot of the brook the world was at peace.
15
The brook at Somersby flowed past the bottom of the parsonage grounds.
16
Bunny and Sue then went wading in the brook until dinner time.
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Brook through the time
Brook across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common