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Example sentences for "broodingly"

Lexicographically close words:
brooded; brooder; brooders; broodeth; brooding; broodings; broods; broody; brook; brooked
  1. As I was sauntering through the doorway, my head bending broodingly over the sketch-book, I caught sight out of the corner of my eye of a little white match-stand fixed up on the wall.

  2. How silently, how broodingly it had stood there, month in, month out, year after year!

  3. Lydia lay in a hammock with a book all the morning, but the greater part of the time, Miss Towne observed, her eyes were fastened broodingly on the lake and not on the printed page.

  4. Lady Larkspur (folding her hands over her chest and gazing broodingly at the footlights).

  5. The sun may shine at Colchester, The rain may rain at Penge; From low-hung skies the dawn may rise Broodingly on Stonehenge.

  6. Then he moved broodingly back to the house to be with his wife until the moment of his going, when Kitty and I stood on the steps to see him motor off to Waterloo.

  7. She looked broodingly at what I carried, then laid a kind hand on my arm.

  8. Defoe stared broodingly out the window at the silent groups of men and women on the grass before the clinic.

  9. Hammond, twirling a pencil in his fingers, stared broodingly at the motionless body of one policyholder.

  10. Moodily he walked along the paths of the Jardin Anglais; broodingly he seated himself upon a bench and stared frowning at the jet d'eau, and suspected, against his will, the Spanish and Portuguese Americans.

  11. Henry remained for a minute, broodingly watching the neat receding back of Charles Wilbraham.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broodingly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.