Brook meaning

Noun: brook

Pronunciation: (bruk)

Brook meaning: A natural stream of water smaller than a river and often a tributary of a river.

Synonyms: creek

Verb: brook

Brook meaning: Put up with something or somebody unpleasant.

Synonyms: abide, bear, digest, endure, stick out

Quotations: William Shakespeare – Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

Japanese Proverb – The pebble in the brook secretly thinks itself a precious stone.

Chinese Proverb – To forget one’s ancestors is to be a brook without a source, a tree without root.

Sample sentences:

1. Faith is knowing there is an ocean because you have seen a brook.
2. Here and there a tawny brook prattled out from among the Underwood and lost itself again in the ferns and brambles upon the further side. Save the dull piping of insects and the sough of the leaves, there was silence everywhere.
3. Narcissus so himself forsook and died to kiss his shadow in the brook.
4. The new secretary had to brook a lot of unprofessional remarks.
5. Memory is a net, one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
6. The woods were made for the hunter of dreams, the brooks for the fishes of song.
7. May brooks and trees and singing hills join in the chorus too, and every gentle wind that blows send happiness to you.
8. And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land.
9. He murmurs near the running brooks. A music sweeter than their own.
10. Lots of us expected the ice would go out today. While it hasn’t been very warm, all the movement caused by the wind and the water rushing in from brooks, continued to melt and shift the ice until it finally moved enough for the clock to stop.