How to Use brood in a Sentence

brood

1 of 2 noun
  • Mrs. Smith took her brood to church every Sunday.
  • Just ask my brood, who aren’t allowed to be on the platform!
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 18 Sep. 2025
  • Just ask my brood, who aren’t allowed to be on the platform!
    — Melissa Willets, Parents, 22 June 2026
  • One brood of cicadas has been waiting a long time to emerge; now is their time.
    — Joyce Orlando, The Courier-Journal, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Arrived wailing into this world as the fourth in a brood of eight.
    — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Prince William and his brood know how to have a royally good time!
    — Leah Simpson, PEOPLE.com, 18 June 2022
  • Beatrice, too, has started a brood of her own in recent years.
    — Emily Burack, Town & Country, 8 Aug. 2022
  • The lower two boxes serve as brood chambers, where the queen lays her eggs.
    — Literary Hub, 27 May 2026
  • Liz, with the power of her spooky brood behind her, flips the script and captures him.
    — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Tyson Fury and Paris Fury are raising a large brood.
    — Jacklyn Krol, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Females nest on the ground and will produce a brood of one to three birds and sometimes up to five.
    — Matthew Every, Field & Stream, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Here's where cicada broods will emerge for first time in over 200 years.
    — USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Horse breeders and riders alike will also be able to house their brood in the home’s eight-stall barn.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2022
  • Geese start nesting from late winter to early spring to produce one brood per year.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 23 Aug. 2025
  • The rest of the brood will enjoy delights like breakfast for two and pancake mix to take home.
    — Spencer Whaley, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Robins often produce three broods a season, building their nests out of grass and mud.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Jan. 2026
  • But one with the express purpose of tracing your brood’s roots overseas?
    — Matthew Kronsberg, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
  • But don’t rule out another addition to the rap ruler’s brood.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 11 July 2022
  • Once a brood has emerged, adult cicadas mate and lay their eggs in tree branches before dying.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Should the sperm-toting female die before her brood is laid, the male’s efforts will all be for naught.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 20 July 2022
  • The youngest of the brood, Jasiah is an eighth grader who stars for a team coached by his father.
    — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 2 Nov. 2022
  • After a long day at the theme park with their brood, the two families braced themselves for the trek home.
    — Angela Andaloro, PEOPLE, 14 May 2026
  • Last year, a single brood awoke from its 17-year slumber to buzz in a handful of states.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 12 Apr. 2026
  • Any pair of broods may occasionally overlap and emerge in the same year.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2024
  • Less is known about what causes cicadas to appear four years before or after their brood time.
    — Addy Bink, The Hill, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The two girls are the first of the Jonas brood to attend school — and the pop stars have a lot of advice for them.
    — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 14 Nov. 2025
  • Ready to keep up with Kim and the rest of her brood with The Kardashians?
    — Brittany Vincent, SELF, 20 May 2022
  • Check out a few photos of our cover stars with the youngest adorable member of the Bailey brood.
    — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Soft, damp soil invites worm and grub hunting, which provides a high-protein diet to raise a brood.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Like seahorses, females are larger and males brood eggs, Short says.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 15 May 2026

brood

2 of 2 verb
  • He brooded over his mistake.
  • After the argument, she sat in her bedroom, brooding.
  • Now, brooding nuns walked through it.
    — Literary Hub, 2 Feb. 2026
  • More on that brooding past seems inevitable.
    — Grace Byron, Vulture, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Angry swans brood and colorful birds perch atop old cages.
    — Karen Burshtein, Time, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Once brooding is done, the female octopus dies around the time her eggs hatch.
    — Emilee Coblentz, USA TODAY, 18 Jan. 2024
  • From this attitude sprung a sound that is brooding yet upbeat.
    — Josh Coe, BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2018
  • Our commute to the power plant could be made on foot, but with a brooding sky like this, the bus is safer.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 29 June 2023
  • The male seahorses ‘get pregnant’ and brood the babies in their pouch.
    — Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 29 Aug. 2021
  • If coffee tones aren’t your thing, opt for something warmer and richer, like this brooding oxblood.
    — Jacqueline Kilikita, Refinery29, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The song plays out like the kinds of brooding confessionals that take place solo at the bar.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Some brood their eggs in a pouch, some in their mouths, some tuck them behind their pectoral fins—that’s called armpit brooding.
    — Jennifer Hayes, National Geographic, 23 May 2019
  • The word juts out of Drake’s brooding chorus like a Freudian slip.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
  • So fitting that the dark, brooding dad is saved essentially by his child.
    — Daniela Avila, Peoplemag, 30 Nov. 2023
  • A lot of players might brood at that, head coach Tara VanDerveer notes.
    — Marisa Ingemi, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Feb. 2023
  • Almost all presidents brood in private about the insults aimed at them.
    — Edwin L. Battistella, Time, 1 Apr. 2020
  • Octopuses do not eat while brooding their eggs—a process that can sometimes take years in the cold, deep ocean.
    — Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The episode broke up long, brooding scenes of grief and almost-grief with a healthy dose of very Riverdale-y moments.
    — Kayleigh Roberts, Marie Claire, 12 Oct. 2017
  • Her tendency to brood, to ask too many questions, to stay with the same thoughts all day long, fuels my writing.
    — Kyoko Mori, Longreads, 3 Sep. 2019
  • This album is the sound of four confident men with nothing left to prove and lots of long, dark, brooding songs to share.
    — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 30 Oct. 2023
  • Rocky spends much of the film brooding, moping, second-guessing himself.
    — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Dexter went from sheltered son of a doctor to brooding child hipster who left home early to tour with big bands.
    — Celina Pereira, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
  • Touriga Nacional shows up again but with more restraint—herbal, earthy, dark-eyed, and brooding.
    — John Noakes, Hartford Courant, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Anna’s normally brood two to three times a year, each time producing two tiny eggs about the size of jelly beans.
    — Ernie Cowan, sandiegouniontribune.com, 14 Sep. 2017
  • Deep-sea octopus brooding is a long process—in one case, an octopus brooded its eggs for more than four years.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 July 2023
  • And, even to this day, the dark and brooding aesthetic holds up beautifully.
    — Sergio Pereira, Space.com, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Enter Kai Kane, the grumpy, brooding restaurant owner who has had just about enough.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 30 Nov. 2025
  • Ozzy was the madman up front, usually singing brooding lyrics written by Geezer.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 17 June 2026
  • Bass holds his son with one arm, lifting him as Alexander turns his head to deliver a brooding side-eye look.
    — Hannah Sacks, Peoplemag, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Underneath the words, the song’s brooding rock sound sets the stage for an album that often leans toward post-punk.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 29 May 2026

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