Synonyms
Examples of brook in a Sentence
Noun
there are tiny fish and frogs in that brook
Verb
I will not brook insults from my own employees.
Recent Examples on the Web
The Week Us, theweek, 19 Jan. 2024
Police said a preliminary investigation suggested the boy died after his father lost him in a brook while fleeing the scene of a motor vehicle crash on foot.
—CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
There are myriad bubbling brooks darting between patches of standing water.
—Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
Think of that situation as a never-ending babbling brook.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
The mass-participation ball game involves two teams, whose players are defined by which side of a small brook that bisects the town they were born, aiming to score a goal, which are some three miles apart.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
Especially in the sweltering summer months, the babbling brooks and springs were a cooling reprieve, drawing road-trippers from near and far as the only national park for hundreds of miles.
—Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2023
But perhaps his most audacious creation is a three-acre lake, big enough to canoe in, which was built by fixing a retaining wall against sloped land fed by two brooks.
—Curbed, 29 Dec. 2023
When left open, rivers and brooks absorb extra water in their natural flood plains; when encased, the water has nowhere to go but up, often into people’s cellars.
—Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Nov. 2023
Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2024
Sure, his populist, vaccine-skeptical audience overlaps to some extent with that of DeSantis, and there is some entertainment value to be had in reminding people that the Democrats brook no dissent.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
The regime brooked little dissent, harshly cracking down on critics in the media, intimidating political activists, and jailing vocal opposition leaders, especially from the PML-N, on unsubstantiated corruption charges.
—Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 15 Apr. 2022
The colony’s superintendent at the time was not a man to brook any such insubordination.
—Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
In this way, the book’s plot recalls classic tropes of the Cold War: a cruel, power-hungry communist party-state, unwilling to brook any popular challenge to its authority, oppresses its people and provokes heroic resistance.
—Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
Like parts of the West Bank, Gaza enjoys a degree of autonomy, and since the brief Palestinian civil war of 2007, the territory has been administered internally by the Islamist organization Hamas, which brooks little dissent.
—Michael Barnett, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2023
But in the end, the Legend would simply brook no challenge.
—Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 24 June 2023
Any of the folks that have brooked him or collaborated with him, they’re morally compromised.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
Noun
The property, five minutes from town, includes an 18th-century mill keeper’s house turned guesthouse, an antique barn, a rec room, a pool, sports courts, gardens, a fishable brook, and access to hiking trails.
—The Week Us, theweek, 19 Jan. 2024
Police said a preliminary investigation suggested the boy died after his father lost him in a brook while fleeing the scene of a motor vehicle crash on foot.
—CBS News, 5 Mar. 2024
There are myriad bubbling brooks darting between patches of standing water.
—Jason Thomson, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Feb. 2024
Think of that situation as a never-ending babbling brook.
—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
The mass-participation ball game involves two teams, whose players are defined by which side of a small brook that bisects the town they were born, aiming to score a goal, which are some three miles apart.
—Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
Especially in the sweltering summer months, the babbling brooks and springs were a cooling reprieve, drawing road-trippers from near and far as the only national park for hundreds of miles.
—Matt Kirouac, Travel + Leisure, 31 Dec. 2023
But perhaps his most audacious creation is a three-acre lake, big enough to canoe in, which was built by fixing a retaining wall against sloped land fed by two brooks.
—Curbed, 29 Dec. 2023
When left open, rivers and brooks absorb extra water in their natural flood plains; when encased, the water has nowhere to go but up, often into people’s cellars.
—Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Nov. 2023
Verb
That alliance was the clearest warning yet that the gangs would brook no challenges to their position — a sense of impunity that is being replicated by criminal organizations in country after country across Latin America.
—Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 12 Apr. 2024
Sure, his populist, vaccine-skeptical audience overlaps to some extent with that of DeSantis, and there is some entertainment value to be had in reminding people that the Democrats brook no dissent.
—Dan McLaughlin, National Review, 18 Jan. 2024
The regime brooked little dissent, harshly cracking down on critics in the media, intimidating political activists, and jailing vocal opposition leaders, especially from the PML-N, on unsubstantiated corruption charges.
—Aqil Shah, Foreign Affairs, 15 Apr. 2022
The colony’s superintendent at the time was not a man to brook any such insubordination.
—Adam Goodheart, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Sep. 2023
In this way, the book’s plot recalls classic tropes of the Cold War: a cruel, power-hungry communist party-state, unwilling to brook any popular challenge to its authority, oppresses its people and provokes heroic resistance.
—Susan Greenhalgh and Xiying Wang, Foreign Affairs, 11 June 2019
Like parts of the West Bank, Gaza enjoys a degree of autonomy, and since the brief Palestinian civil war of 2007, the territory has been administered internally by the Islamist organization Hamas, which brooks little dissent.
—Michael Barnett, Foreign Affairs, 14 Apr. 2023
But in the end, the Legend would simply brook no challenge.
—Kevin Smith, Car and Driver, 24 June 2023
Any of the folks that have brooked him or collaborated with him, they’re morally compromised.
—Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 20 Apr. 2023
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“Brook.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/brook. Accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
Copy CitationKids Definition
brook
1 of 2 verb
: tolerate sense 1
brooks no interference
brook
2 of 2 noun
: a small stream
Etymology
Verb
Old English brūcan "to use, enjoy"
Noun
Old English brōc "brook, creek"
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