Words similar to brooding

Example sentences for: brooding

How can you use “brooding” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Grit is advised rather than brooding in hard times.
Cuba’s most impressive forts sit brooding over the capital’s commercial harbor.
The best thing about this play, apparently, is Irish actor Donal McCann ( The Dead , Stealing Beauty ). McCann plays a 70-year-old ex-superintendent of the British-run Dublin police force who is now committed to an insane asylum and brooding over his past.
And by "dark and brooding," I, of course, mean appealing and simpatico.
(It gets dark so early when you lie in bed brooding until 2 in the afternoon.)