How to use brook in a sentence

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• Brooks performed a saxophone solo on stage, with Robert as accompaniment on the bass.From the entry accompaniment
• They spelled the horses and rested in the shade of some trees near a brook.From the entry spell
• We had no trouble crossing the brook, which was a mere tricklet.From the entry tricklet
• The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.From the entry hop
• Folk like that I just can’t brook.From the entry like
• The brook had shrunk to a mere trickle.From the entry trickle
• The deep river moves with silent majesty, but shallow brooks are noisy?"2014, Student vs IAS T20: love is god and mercy divine, →ISBN. From the entry shallow brooks are noisy
• She spoke a dialect that ran like the fabled brook through the heart of E.1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, Vintage (2019), page 111. From the entry unparsable
• Brooks' characters are poor, but the poems do not describe material poverty.1994 May 4, Diane Scharper, “Perhaps Our Greatest Living Poet”, in Baltimore Sun, archived from the original on 20 Jun 2021. From the entry unbaffleable
• Before the brook flows past Pitminster Church, it passes through a deep goyle.1939, Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset .... From the entry goyle
• They could wallow in the long sedges therealong, and drink of the brook.1913, Theodore Winthrop, chapter XII, in The canoe and the saddle; or, Klalam and Klickatat, page 188. From the entry therealong
• Mary Lindahl heated her clothing-iron on the kitchen stove and in the early years washed clothes in a brook.2004 January 26, Sonia Scherr, “A Life: Lindahl Had ‘Sense of Her Worth’”, in Valley News, volume 52, number 231, West Lebanon, N.H.…. From the entry clothing-iron
• The sounds are the muffled gurgling of runoff under frozen brooks, and the sharp quork-quork-quork of ravens overhead.2000, William Scheller, Snow Sports, page 170. From the entry quork
• Brook asked the actors to find a way of communicating the idea of this picture to a blind Chineseman.1995, Albert Hunt, Geoffrey Reeves, Peter Brook, page 129. From the entry Chineseman
• In the gnarled willow trees by the brook I saw a tiny long-tailed titmouse disappear into a fork of a tree.1983, Bernd Heinrich, In a Patch of Fireweed, page 11. From the entry long-tailed titmouse
• Brooks fitted a new fall to his whip.1945, Tom Ronan, Strangers on the Ophir, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 113. From the entry fall
• I took to fishing, on mountain brooks and lakes, and finally I was inveigled into becoming a spelunker.1943, Clay Perry, Author and Journalist Magazine. From the entry spelunker
• But Sophia's mother was not the woman to brook defiance.1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC. From the entry husband
• 'Twas just a bit o' lathy old plank which Jim had throwed acrost the brook for his own conveniences.1917, Rudyard Kipling, A Diversity of Creatures. From the entry lathy
• Tarzan went to the brook first, and slaked his thirst.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 118. From the entry slake
• Brooks began as a Tummler (master entertainer) at various Catskills resorts, where he honed his skills at telling jokes and doing impersonations.2015, Henry Jenkins, “Mel Brooks, Vulgar Modernism, and Comic Remediation”, in Andrew Horton, Joanna E. Rapf, editors, A Companion to Film…. From the entry tummler
• On other days we journeyed as far up the main branch as far as we could, sometimes following small brooks back to their deadwaters.2013, Doug Roy, The River Runs Deep, page 99. From the entry dead water
• But that's nothing compared to Victoria Station, where a million gallons a day are pumped away, most of it from the Tyburn brook.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry press officer
• Consider harvesting any brook trout as park biologists electrofish this stream every summer to remove brook trout that wash down from outside the park.2012, Nate Schweber, Fly Fishing Yellowstone National Park, page 188. From the entry electrofish
• The kiack (also called gaspereau and alewife in other areas) is fished with a dip net out of small brooks in the Tusket River area.2010, William Casselman, Nova Scotia Fish Word: Kiack, www.billcasselman.com (retrieved 29 Nov. 2011). From the entry kiack
• Brooks titled her collected poems Blacks.2005, Elizabeth Alexander, “Introduction”, in The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks (American Poets Project; 19), New York, N.Y.: The Library of…. From the entry celebratoriness
• There was a little stream, or brook, never dry, flowing, now slow, now with torrential rapidity, for ever in its narrow ditch.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry humpbacked
• Woodpig was rootling for worms up the brook when he was surprised to see Chaffinch, "spinking" at him from a hazel twig.1949, Denys Watkins-Pitchford, “The Animal Banquet”, in The Little Grey Men, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, page 144. From the entry spink
• Nay, hush thee, hush! and listen to yon blithesome, bubblesome, babbling brook how it sigheth 'mid the willows, whispereth under reedy bank and laugheth, rogue-like, in the shallows!2015, Jeffery Farnol, The Geste of Duke Jocelyn. From the entry bubblesome
• The practical Martha was in fact advancing with an improvised leaping-pole that had already carried her neatly over the brook and would obviously bring Bundock over the boglet.1919, Israel Zangwill, “Bundock on His Beat”, in Jinny the Carrier, London: William Heinemann, →OCLC, section III, page 12. From the entry boglet
• Can each of these treatyless allies brook equality or must there be a clash for the purpose of determining which shall yield supremacy to the other?1912, George Hubbard Blakeslee, Japan and Japanese-American Relations. From the entry treatyless
• But if the animals are few the flowers are plentiful, especially in the open glades and along the brook, where I find clusters of larkspur, blue flax and Sego lilies.1968, Edward Abbey, “Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert”, in Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, McGraw-Hill; republished…. From the entry blue flax
• The notion of possessing a bearskin rug pleased his fancy, and over the hill, in a tangle beside the brook, he had come across fresh signs of a monster Bruin.1906 March 10, Forest and Stream, page 385, column 3. From the entry ursicide

Meaning of brook

1. verb To bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.
2. verb To enjoy the use of; make use of; profit by; to use, enjoy, possess, or hold.
3. verb To earn; deserve.

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How do you use brook in a sentence?

Brook is used as a verb and noun. For example: “I will not brook any disobedience.”

What is a short sentence with brook?

“brook no refusal”

What does brook mean?

Brook means to bear; endure; support; put up with; tolerate.