broody

How To Use broody In A Sentence

• Because, I have looked into a panoramic view of those deep broody eyes a million times over the last few years.
• To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her. On Scientific Explorations of Human Nature
• Then we had Kylie Minogue, pouting Australian mother-of-none but definitely getting broody, revealing her shock at the flesh-exposing antics of the younger generation of Britneys and Christinas.
• Asked if being surrounded by burbling babies made him feel “broody,” Wills winced. William and Kate
• He seems broody, his dark eyes deep and sorrowful. Times, Sunday Times
• The newest addition, a small, 12 year old wire haired terrier, arrived at the behest of my partner who is obviously going through one of those strange broody phases that often occur with women of a certain age.
• My friend on the other hand, is very broody and wants to go to university to find a nice man to marry and have children with and that is her principal aim (of course she also wants the degree and the experience, but she very much wants a man).
• Of the men in this fellowship, both Mortensen and Bean accomplish their characters, with Mortensen delivering a broody and enigmatic warrior Strider and Bean creating a conflicted Boromir.
• He watched over his subordinates like a broody hen - when he noticed someone weakening, he would order extra hot milk all around, without revealing who needed it the most.
• She said: ‘I adore children and am feeling very broody.’