How to Use broody in a Sentence

broody

adjective
  • The chickens were running on instinct — a broody hen sees something small and warm in her nest and sits on it.
    — Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 27 Apr. 2026
  • The spirit’s fiery heart and textured oak is perfectly at home in the cold, while the cocktail treatment stops it from getting too broody.
    — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 27 Sep. 2025
  • The camera takes time to adore the young protagonists, to admire their excellent surfaces, to look them straight in their moody, broody, serious eyes.
    — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Theo James starred on season 1 as Charlotte's love interest (and one of Austen's broody heroes, of course), Sidney Parker.
    — Andrea Wurzburger, PEOPLE, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The other is something more resembling that first one’s exact opposite—a dark and broody sipper, punchy and robust, liquid mollification reflecting that the best of the season is now officially behind us, and all that lays ahead is the long frigid slog toward spring.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2026
  • Both drinks start with gin, but while the Negroni uses Campari’s bright bitter orange for its trademark bitterness, the Remember the Alimony uses the broodier Cynar, similarly bitter but at a lower and more vegetal hum, flavored with, among other things, artichokes.
    — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 4 Oct. 2025
  • One notable absence from the sophomore season of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar’s Wednesday is that of broody artist Xavier Thorpe (Percy Hynes White), who played a significant love interest for Jenna Ortega’s titular main character in Season 1.
    — Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 8 Aug. 2025

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