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"Brood" in a Sentence (24 examples)
The hen keeps her brood under her.
In a sunny spot stood a pleasant old farm-house close by a deep river, and from the house down to the water side grew great burdock leaves, so high, that under the tallest of them a little child could stand upright. The spot was as wild as the centre of a thick wood. In this snug retreat sat a duck on her nest, watching for her young brood to hatch; she was beginning to get tired of her task, for the little ones were a long time coming out of their shells, and she seldom had any visitors.
On the next day the weather was delightful, and the sun shone brightly on the green burdock leaves, so the mother duck took her young brood down to the water, and jumped in with a splash.
To arms I call my comrades, and defy / the loathsome brood to battle.
A brood mare is a female horse used for breeding.
Parts of the United States are being invaded by a mass brood of cicadas that emerges from the ground once every 17 years.
Nevertheless, while so many of her patriot sons were engaged in the deadly strife of Southern battle-fields, and the result of the struggle was in the uncertain future, a sombre cloud could not fail to brood over our daily life, interfering with the full enjoyment of the blessings we retained.
Every 17 years, billions of insects, known as the cicadas of Brood X, rise from the earth.
The sole ray of sunshine in this dreary brood is seven-year-old Olive: bespectacled, slightly chubby, but full of youthful optimism.
Tom brought his whole brood with him.
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As a hen doth gather her brood under her wings.
Ay, lord, she will become thy bed, I warrant, / And bring thee forth brave brood.
Garland Green, the tenth in a brood of eleven, was born on June 24, 1942, in Dunleath, Mississippi.
[…] flocks of the airy brood, Cranes, geese or long-neck'd swans, here, there, proud of their pinions fly […]
Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws, And make the earth devour her own sweet brood […]
brood ducks
a brood mare
In some species of birds, both the mother and father brood the eggs.
Under the rock was a midshipman fish, brooding a mass of eggs.
He sat brooding about the upcoming battle, fearing the outcome.
As when with downcast eyes we muse and brood
Brooding over all these matters, the mother felt like one who has evoked a spirit.
But Claggart's was no vulgar form of the passion. Nor, as directed toward Billy Budd, did it partake of that streak of apprehensive jealousy that marred Saul's visage perturbedly brooding on the comely young David. Claggart's envy struck deeper.
And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this blue lawn, and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
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