How to Use brook in a Sentence

brook

1 of 2 noun

• Her laughter was said to sound like a babbling brook.
  — Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025
• She’s lost so much, and is jumping from stone to stone in a roaring brook.
  — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 23 Aug. 2021
• The fly-and-worm is at its best in the quick-water pockets of late-spring brooks.
  — Will Ryan, Field & Stream, 5 July 2023
• Insects drone over running brooks.
  — ABC News, 15 Apr. 2026
• Its grounds held extensive gardens, a duck pond and a brook.
  — Antonia Noori Farzan, The Providence Journal, 22 Mar. 2026
• The hillsides around the brook are filled with foundations of all shapes and sizes.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 8 Apr. 2018
• The trail parallels the brook, which after good spring rains will draw you with sounds of the falls.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2021
• After dinner, Terry went to a small brook to wash his mess kit.
  — Washington Post, 15 Aug. 2021
• My favorite was a little babbling brook that came out of the side of the mountain.
  — Kelly Cannon, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
• Those creeks now are full of brook and rainbow trout introduced for sport fishing.
  — Bruce Finley, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• Rainbow, brook and tiger trout are plopped Into the mountain lakes.
  — Scottie Andrew, CNN, 13 July 2021
• The 10-foot-wide paved path with blue stone shoulders would run along the brook’s southern banks.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 10 June 2019
• Crane-bows and cutthroat trout and an occasional large brook trout.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 9 June 2017
• An upper level skywalk crosses a brook and connects to one wing of the house.
  — Lauren Beale, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2021
• There's one spot on Richard's land where the Guadalupe slows to a babbling brook at the base of a tree.
  — Bo Evans, CBS News, 2 July 2026
• Then as now, the shelter was a lean-to perched high on concrete pilings in a glade hemmed by a curving brook.
  — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
• There are rustic side trails between the brook and path visitors can use to avoid most of the wet areas.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 29 Nov. 2019
• Wildman said the stairs will encourage visitors to use the brook.
  — Peter Marteka, courant.com, 18 Nov. 2019
• There are a mile and a half of walking paths along the brook, as well as pedestrian bridges and an amphitheater.
  — Julie Lasky, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2020
• The grounds, with barn and outbuildings, also include a brook and gardens.
  — Courant Community, 11 July 2017
• Those will include native plantings, trails and brook crossings, with the work still in its pre-design phase.
  — Thomas Jewell, cleveland, 31 Jan. 2023
• So, too, can listening to sounds from nature — such as a burbling brook, rustling leaves, singing birds, or rolling ocean waves.
  — Stacey Colino, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2022
• The sound soother offers eight relaxing choices to lull you to sleep, from white noise to rain, ocean and a babbling brook.
  — Lauren Levy, NBC News, 18 Mar. 2021
• The companies that market them tend to use terms like sterling and chiffon lace and winding brook.
  — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 19 Aug. 2022
• She was buried in Fairview Cemetery, just across the brook from their house in Hyde Park.
  — Dominique Janee, Scientific American, 2 Nov. 2023
• Views through tall windows extend from the river to meadows and a brook, in three directions.
  — Marcelle Sussman Fischler, New York Times, 5 July 2017
• Pelosi stops at a beautiful brook to enjoy a glass of Zinfandel.
  — James Folta, The New Yorker, 31 May 2017
• Dozens of gallons of acid flowed into a nearby brook and down a three-mile stretch of the North River.
  — Charlie McKenna, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Dec. 2021
• Close to Mount Snow, the property includes trails, a brook, fruit trees, and a swimming hole.
  — The Week Us, TheWeek, 13 Apr. 2026
• The isolated location, the light, the chortling brook in the backyard—perfect.
  — Benjamin Rasmussen, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2020

brook

2 of 2 verb

• I will not brook insults from my own employees.
• The friendly staff is likely to tell you what the trout (rainbow, brook, and brown) are biting.
  — Jennifer Bradley Franklin, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2018
• Like brook and brown trout, the rainbow’s lifestyle requires clean, flowing water in streams, rivers or ponds.
  — John Bordsen, chicagotribune.com, 31 Aug. 2017
• Keenan said Howard’s penchant for pursuing the truth brooked no obstacles.
  — Mark Woolsey, ajc, 30 Jan. 2020
• Their chants and attacks on government buildings broke taboos in a system that brooks little dissent.
  — Erin Cunningham, Houston Chronicle, 1 Jan. 2018
• Republicans in their states are fiercely loyal to Trump and would not brook dissent.
  — David M. Drucker, Washington Examiner, 15 Jan. 2020
• The dictator had set his mind on claiming all the sunken treasure off his country’s coast and would brook no competition.
  — Literary Hub, 28 Jan. 2026
• The monument lies along the pristine east branch of the Penobscot River and is home to lynx, bears, brook trout and moose.
  — Susan Levine, Washington Post, 22 Aug. 2017
• For action on smaller splake, rainbow trout, and brook trout, smaller jigs tipped with shrimp, meal worms, or wax worms have proven highly effective.
  — Colorado Parks & Wildlife, The Denver Post, 12 Mar. 2017
• The money will be used to enhance road crossings and streambanks to reduce the impact of sediment on brook trout habitats.
  — Sabrina Eaton, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2017
• Second, euthanasia is an aggressive social pathogen that brooks no dissent.
  — Wesley J. Smith, National Review, 24 Jan. 2020
• The genius of the people will ill brook the inquisitive and peremptory spirit of excise laws.
  — Marie Sapirie, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• Ramesh, similarly, thinks that Bollywood would be wise to heed a newly aware public that will brook no offense.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• But empires do not usually brook the emergence of plausible competitors.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 17 May 2022
• The protesters’ chants and attacks on government buildings have broken taboos in a system that brooks little dissent.
  — Erin Cunningham, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• This refusal to brook any reform of public-sector performance created charter schools.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 1 June 2022
• What could be more American than this mania, this implacable drive that will brook no opposition?
  — Literary Hub, 6 July 2026
• Rainbow, brook and brown trout often eat only a particular insect at that particular stage.
  — Steve Waters, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 June 2017
• At this degree of sensitivity, fingertips can find discontinuities the mind may not be able to brook.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 21 Jan. 2020
• Warm Lake is a unique fishery, home to rainbow trout, Kokanee and all three Idaho char species — brook, bull and Mackinaw trout.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 9 July 2018
• In a region where leaders brook little dissent, the country of 12 million became a place of free speech and political contestation.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 28 June 2022
• 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.
  — Jonathan Cristol, CNN, 9 May 2017
• But both men were ruthless in centralizing political control, brooking no dissent and crushing civil liberties, like free speech.
  — Peter Leyden, Big Think, 7 Oct. 2025
• Republican House Speaker Dustin Burrows promised swift action and vowed to brook no more stalling tactics from Democrats.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 19 Aug. 2025
• Set around a conference table, the play offers a portrait not of an avuncular artist whose childlike imagination took over the world but of a megalomaniac who cannot brook dissent.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 5 Apr. 2022
• Protesters in Iran are pushing back against an oppressive regime that has refused to brook any dissent and has destroyed voices for reform through imprisonment, exile or death.
  — Amy Motlagh, The Conversation, 14 Nov. 2022
• Trump’s inability to brook dissent has compounded the administration’s struggles to fill a number of high-ranking positions.
  — Tina Nguyen, The Hive, 22 Feb. 2017
• For months now, the government has refused to brook any political settlement, framing the protests as a law and order issue and putting the onus on the city's beleaguered police force to bring them under control.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 25 Nov. 2019
• His characters enjoy casual conversation but don’t brook wanton confession.
  — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2026
• The state of New Hampshire, for example, has concluded that climate change could reduce the numbers of ski days in the state by as much as 20 percent and nearly wipe out rainbow, brook and brown trout fishing.
  — Michael Casey, The Seattle Times, 16 Dec. 2017