لفظ "بروڈنگ" کے لغت کے معنی گہرائی سے سوچنا اور کسی چیز کے بارے میں فکر مند یا پریشان ہونا ہے، عام طور پر طویل عرصے تک۔ یہ انڈے لگانے کے عمل کا بھی حوالہ دے سکتا ہے، خاص طور پر پرندوں کے۔ بطور صفت، یہ ایسے موڈ یا ماحول کو بیان کر سکتا ہے جو تاریک، مدھم، یا جابرانہ ہو۔
1. Eventually, after hours of brooding and struggling against his own mind, he fell into a fitful sleep, plagued by nightmares.
2. It was a vicious ocean of rolling, seething blood, a terrible black sun brooding among its midst.
3. Sintian lounged against the far wall, his dark eyes brooding and downcast, as if deep in thought.
4. Jackson watches me approach, and there is a dark, brooding look in his eyes.
5. He nearly slammed the containers down before spinning around wordlessly and returning to his favorite brooding spot.
6. Gibson now spent most of his time sulking and brooding over the embarrassment of their failure.
7. Lance observed his brooding friend standing at the corner, brushing back dark, untamed curls, anxious eyes roaming.
8. They lay up against the wall side by side, thoughtful and brooding, lamenting choices made and not made.
9. Arthur saw the call had ended and lapsed into a brooding silence.
10. Oh, ye rural deities, whoever ye be that haunt this lone spot, give ear to the complaint of a wretched lover whom long absence and brooding jealousy have driven to bewail his fate among these wilds and complain of the hard heart of that fair and ungrateful one, the end and limit of all human beauty!