Naturally enough, then, criticism has set about inquiring to what influences we may ascribe these broodings over life and death and the mysteries of existence.
But the sole cause of this impotence is the paralysing grasp laid on all his faculties by his new realisation of what life is, and the broodings born of this realisation.
Nevertheless, Emmy was quite generous enough, and was long-suffering, so that her resentment took the general form of silences and secret broodings upon their different fortunes.
Pa's broodings were as customary to them as the absorbed contemplativeness of a baby.
Drusus was in the world of action, not forgetful of his sweetheart, yet not pent up to solitary broodings on his ill-fated passion.
Claudia cared for Cornelia in a manner, and believed it was a real kindness to tear the poor girl away from her solitary broodings and plunge her into the whirl of the world of Roman fashion.
But her long pent-up broodings burst from her again in a new channel.
There were even times when he could almost have wished it were not some distorted molehill that the girl's excitable broodings had swollen past all proportion, but some test of his strength, some plumbing of his tenderness.
In spite of her broodings late at night, when her letters were written and Jimmy's food prepared for the night, she was still unable to cast them up.
His mind was as feverish as his body, and the morbid broodings which active life reduces to their lowest degree in most young men, were left to make full havoc along with the seven devils of idleness and vacuity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "broodings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
