A domestic hen ready to brood.
Deeply or seriously thoughtful;
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Examples for "brooding "
Examples for "brooding "
1 Moreover, every brooding male is out of action for over seven weeks.
2 The potential connection Heat had been brooding over could wait no longer.
3 Just short of his middle years, handsome in a brooding , rugged fashion.
4 Students can become brooding pessimists at this late stage in the process.
5 On the sidewalk she heard the brooding scuff of heavy work boots.
1 In this instance, however, he found himself pondering the older man's words.
2 The energy expert stroked his cheek with long fingers, pondering the question.
3 The press has been pondering the Halal question too, for some time.
4 The oldest, at least,' Ahmed added gravely after pondering for a moment.
5 He called it, The Blessed Virgin pondering the Lily of the Annunciation.
1 Both events are reflective of the way the game is played today.
2 Joe Natuman admits this approach is not reflective of Vanuatu public opinion.
3 Beyond a certain age, a journey across the city becomes uncomfortably reflective .
4 But they're just as often culturally engaged, self - reflective and trying their best.
5 Media behavior doesn't drive consumer behavior, it is reflective of consumer behavior.
1 I could spend the evening of the year musing amid the Poke-stems.
2 Thus musing , Sanford walked rapidly off in the direction of the village.
3 And then, in the midst of my wondering and musing , something happened.
4 The captain made no answer, but stood musing ; Mrs. Weldon interrupted him.
5 He was musing deeply, and his thoughts ran something in this line:
1 On the way home my father was pensive and didn't speak much.
2 It is tender, pensive , personal; other psalms are that; but Psalm cxix.
3 But the quip was lost on Nikki, who stayed her pensive course.
4 These thoughts kept him pensive and melancholy in the midst of pleasure.
5 The verses added in the present edition are more pensive , even sombre.
1 When Gertie is in a meditative state, any interruption can be dangerous.
2 Facebook Twitter Pinterest 'I find it quite meditative ' ... potters at the wheel.
3 It's kind of a meditative process in kind of a masochistic way.
4 Yeobright retired to the heap of recovered rope in a meditative mood.
5 The attitude in which he rested his menaced eyes was profoundly meditative .
1 For the contemplative life consists essentially in things pertaining to the intellect.
2 Therefore it seems that the moral virtues pertain to the contemplative life.
3 He held these out with a face of grave and contemplative patronage.
4 Therefore it would seem that the contemplative life wholly regards the intellect.
5 Polidori again drew near the bed, and remained in a contemplative attitude.
1 After a few ruminative puffs, he studies what she has given him.
2 Brett surveyed the privileged classes on the hearth-rug with a ruminative eye.
3 They sat and sipped their lemonades, thoughtfully inspecting their straws, dolefully ruminative .
4 She has a son, four daughters and a wry, ruminative delivery.
5 Her voice became half-absent-minded, ruminative , as though she were thinking aloud.
1 The demeanour of broody concern in the official photograph makes sense now.
2 Another mid-tempo broody type of track it has many rhythmic changes.
3 The only thing dumber than a broody hen was a New York Democrat.
4 Finn's always been that mysterious broody type, but I don't know.
5 Let's get a stuffed broody hen to SIT on the magazine.
6 There was something broody about her silence, and it worried him.
7 However, the characteristics of broody behavior in geese remain unclear.
8 Soon we move on to motherhood ('Sometimes I get a bit broody .
9 After that he chewed tobacco and drove in broody silence.
10 Bjork's album of heartbreak and loss all wrapped with broody strings and distended electronics.
11 She'd been a little broody the whole time I was putting on my makeup.
12 Now that the eggs had hatched, Motherclucker's broody urge disappeared.
13 You're as moody and broody a lad as never I set eyes on yet.'
14 He thinks spending time around babies will make me broody .
15 But this year, Mrs W felt that she deserved to have her broody urge fulfilled.
16 Earlier this year Kate sparked a wild flurry of headlines after admitting she was broody .
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