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Examples of brook in a Sentence
there are tiny fish and frogs in that brook
Recent Examples of brook from the Web
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Acoustical ceiling tile, heavily insulated walls, carpeted corridors and other features are designed to keep sounds under 40 decibels—about the level of a babbling brook.
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Land use varies in each setting, but each contributes its own set of 'pollutants' into the streams and brooks that feed into the waterways that run to Roseland Lake.
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Those creeks now are full of brook and rainbow trout introduced for sport fishing.
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Rarely does a home come up for sale that checks off every box on our wishlist: historical charm, water access, lush rose gardens, a babbling brook and acreage to boot.
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Crane-bows and cutthroat trout and an occasional large brook trout.
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The park offers more than 100 waterfalls and cascades, over 2,000 miles of flowing brooks and streams, 800 miles of hiking trails and roughly 1,500 black bears.
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Look to the Farmington River for brook and rainbow but especially brown trout, with particularly good fishing from Riverton to Farmington.
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In south-central Jordan, hikers pass through Wadi Hasa, an area filled with limestone waterfalls and babbling brooks.
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Origin and Etymology of brook
Middle English, from Old English brōc; akin to Old High German bruoh marshy ground
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Definition of brook
transitive verb
: to stand for : tolerate he would brook no interference with his plans
Examples of brook in a Sentence
I will not brook insults from my own employees.
Recent Examples of brook from the Web
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Rainbow, brook and brown trout often eat only a particular insect at that particular stage.
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New Jersey has a handful of state symbols, including an official fish (brook trout), bug (honey bee), animal (horse), bird (Eastern Goldfinch), dance (American Folk) and dinosaur (Hadrosaurus foulkii).
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Two weeks later, while Keene was planting a garden at her house near Lubec in the northeast corner of Maine, Boutin helped a relative set a net for the last of his quota on a small brook off the Penobscot River near Bangor.
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Some other species found are largemouth bass, brown bullhead, white catfish, chain pickerel, brook trout, brown trout and rainbow trout, according to ctfishfinder.com.
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McWhorter brooks no condescension toward the Valley Girl.
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These conditions do not hold in North Korea, which brooks no dissent and is willing to let hundreds of thousands of its citizens starve to ensure the regime's survival.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'brook'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Origin and Etymology of brook
Middle English brouken to use, enjoy, from Old English brūcan; akin to Old High German brūhhan to use, Latin frui to enjoy
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Definition of brook for English Language Learners
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: to allow (something) to exist or happen
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