BRACKET in a Sentence

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14 example sentences for BRACKET, such as:

1. Add the numbers in brackets first.
2. Figures in brackets refer to the Notes.
3. The worker fixed a bracket on the wall.
4. Put your name in brackets at the top of each page.
5. The accountant uses an algorithm to determine the appropriate tax bracket.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRACKET
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
bracket
 v.  classify or group
 v.  support with brackets
Classic Sentence:
1  For a long time he gazed upward at it, and then in an attempt to get nearer to it he rested his knee upon a wooden bracket on the wall.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
2  This brought his hand within a few inches of the broken end of the rope, but it was not this so much as the bracket itself which seemed to engage his attention.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE
3  Over the head of the bed was an alabaster bracket, on which a beautiful sculptured angel stood, with drooping wings, holding out a crown of myrtle-leaves.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  A screened porch with pillars of thin painted pine surmounted by scrolls and brackets and bumps of jigsawed wood.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Yes, it was disappearance; here again, as in the mad will which he had long ago restored to its author, here again were the idea of a disappearance and the name of Henry Jekyll bracketed.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER REMARKABLE INCIDENT OF DR. LANYON
Example Sentence:
1  The worker fixed a bracket on the wall.
2  The helm is made of two very large oars, firmly bound to a kind of bracket in front of the rear platform, and worked by a long curved stick.
3  The accountant uses an algorithm to determine the appropriate tax bracket.
4  Add the numbers in brackets first.
5  Corporate bodies Numbers in brackets indicate that a corporate body or its activities are discussed in the document concerned.
6  Figures in brackets refer to the Notes.
7  Put your name in brackets at the top of each page.
8  Then Tehran was bracketed, along with its old enemy Iraq, and North Korea, in President Bush's axis of evil.
9  He's often bracketed with the romantic poets of this period although this does not reflect the range of his work.