2 example sentences using brook.
Brook used in a sentence
Brook in a sentence as a noun
Not to mean to nitpick, but am I the only one who thought it felt jarring to hear an outdoor babbling brook, while looking at the surface of the water from... below?
Brook in a sentence as a verb
You might characterise a fundamentalist belief in God as one that would brook no counter-argument. A stronger definition than before: "belief that something is true that accepts no evidence to the contrary".
Brook definitions
noun
a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer"
See also: creek
verb
put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"