The sparrow kept her brood in the nest in the old elm tree. From LearnThat.org.
Birds brood. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The hen with her brood is an accepted model of motherhood in this respect. From Wordnik.com. [Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution] Reference
And the Palin brood doesn’t do Motel 6 and order in pizza. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarians Still Lusting for Palin? « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
This behavior is called brood parasitism, and its success has posed a longstanding challenge to evolutionary theorists. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
But Leigh Anne and her brood are a big-hearted lot, taking in Michael indefinitely, eventually regarding him as family. From Wordnik.com. [Strong acting can't outrun shallow tale in 'The Blind Side'] Reference
Ah! my dear, she'd a face as fair as an angel, and as muckle dignity as a crowned queen, and her brood were a 'like her. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times] Reference
To say "brood" means your mother is an asp, a-s-p. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 28, 2008] Reference
My brood is so young. From Wordnik.com. [Songs of Ukraina, With Ruthenian Poems] Reference
Surely the lion's brood is strong. From Wordnik.com. [Our National Aspirations] Reference
'Before, he'd kind of brood in his trailer and read. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference
It is most valuable for horses and mules which are not at heavy work, such as brood mares and work horses during the slack season. From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
"Zimbabwe today, South Africa tomorrow," editors brood. From Wordnik.com. [The Incredible Shrinking President] Reference
A friend once asked Eunice how the Kennedy brood was doing. From Wordnik.com. [The 'Runt' Of The Family] Reference
And with that, he and his brood swooped off down the mountain. From Wordnik.com. [And The Press Kept Its Place] Reference
I generally brood, as all of us do on the bench, just before we go on. From Wordnik.com. [The Truth Behind The Pillars] Reference
"I generally brood, as all of us do on the bench, just before we go on.". From Wordnik.com. [The 'Accidental President'] Reference
I'd already earned my Arms, and was one of the most discreet of my brood. From Wordnik.com. [The Peacock King: Book 1, Chapter 1] Reference
I had no lack of questions to brood over, so to speak, while I was pregnant. From Wordnik.com. [Home births: safer for mom, riskier for baby?] Reference
The aces turned up right off and so did empty slots for the kings and their brood. From Wordnik.com. [Assumption] Reference
We found a half-dozen brood hens with a bowl of water that had turned into solid ice. From Wordnik.com. [Landlord, Expert On Human Behavior?] Reference
For centuries a healthy brood of boys was considered the best form of social security. From Wordnik.com. [China’s New Empty Nest] Reference
She shared photos of their fast-growing brood by email, and he kept his men alive in Iraq. From Wordnik.com. ['It's Tearing Families Apart'] Reference
But this season strikes me as a watershed in the transition from the graying to the fresh-faced brood. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Kid Quarterbacks Rule Today's NFL] Reference
Even if one could handle the finances, how does a modern mom manage a full-time career and a big brood?. From Wordnik.com. [Big Families Are Back In Style] Reference
There's Angelina Jolie with her beautiful rainbow coalition-like brood, bopping around the globe with grace. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood's Dirtiest Little Secret: Nannies] Reference
From April to August the food sources are rich; fruit, berries, insects that animals can feed to their brood. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Spiegelman: Call of the WildCare] Reference
I have no problem with her turning her adorable eight into TV stars -- in fact, I want to be one of her brood. From Wordnik.com. [Bonnie Fuller: Stop Bashing Kate Gosselin's Mommying: I Want to Be One of Her Kids! Don't You?] Reference
And his brood is powerful enough to overwhelm whatever remained of last year's "cowboy up" era of good feeling. From Wordnik.com. [Starr Gazing: Red Sox and Blue Staters] Reference
Russians brood from a "self-distanced perspective", as if watching events, and their responses, from a distance. From Wordnik.com. [This column will change your life: Power to the people… or not] Reference
For centuries, a healthy Chinese brood dominated by male children was considered the best form of social security. From Wordnik.com. [Playing With the Old Blood Rules] Reference
Their food paid for, the Trainor family heads for home on the heels of Peck and her brood of tow-headed youngsters. From Wordnik.com. [NASCAR Minivan Series Has Soccer Moms "Swapping Paint"] Reference
It was the look of a father, but not a Father in the ordained sense, but as a real progenitor gazing upon its brood. From Wordnik.com. [The Damned Thing Out] Reference
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