BRAND in a Sentence

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For BRAND, below is one of 79 sentences:
The hearth-fires are plundered; the smoky brand trails a resinous glare, and the Fire-god sends clouds of glowing ashes upward.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRAND
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brand
 n.  a type of product made by a particular company
 n.  a piece of burning wood used to give light
Classic Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1  , brand him in the forehead with a hot iron and perform upon him a surgical operation with a pair of tailor's shears.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Quite new; 'brand' new, in fact; a present from my husband.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
3  A spectral-looking figure stalked from out of the darkness behind the scout, and seizing a blazing brand, held it toward the further extremity of their place of retreat.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 6
4  Approaching Uncas, she held the blazing brand in such a manner as to cast its red glare on his person, and to expose the slightest emotion of his countenance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 23
5  I flatter myself that I can distinguish at a glance the ash of any known brand, either of cigar or of tobacco.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL
6  The sun had now got far to the west of south and stood directly in her face, like some merciless incendiary, brand in hand, waiting to consume her.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: 6 A Conjuncture, and Its Result upon the Pedestrian
7  They are usually wrapped in straw, you know, and are thinner for their length than any other brand.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. The Adventure of The Resident Patient
8  So speaking, she hurled her torch at him, and pierced his breast with the lurid smoking brand.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SEVENTH
9  The hearth-fires are plundered; the smoky brand trails a resinous glare, and the Fire-god sends clouds of glowing ashes upward.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
10  Corynaeus seizes a charred brand from the altar, and meeting Ebysus as he advances to strike, darts the flame in his face; his heavy beard flamed up, and gave out a scorched smell.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
11  A part of its orb was at length hid, and I waved my brand; it sank, and with a loud scream I fired the straw, and heath, and bushes, which I had collected.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
12  At the very least, they should have put the brand of a hot iron on Hester Prynne's forehead.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
13  Every word that Marius had just uttered produced on the visage of the old Royalist the effect of the puffs of air from a forge upon a blazing brand.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—MARBLE AGAINST GRANITE
14  The brand disappeared; the beauty alone remained.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 57 MEANS FOR CLASSICAL TRAGEDY
15  He asked, he urged, he claimed the boon of a brand snatched from the burning.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (33 in 3 pages)
16  The only way for a value brand like ours to remain relevant is to provide innovation that sets us apart.
17  He has his own brand of humor and always brings laugh for us.
18  A couple of years back you very loudly opposed the creation of "60 MINUTES 2", I think, that it might dilute the brand that you helped build up.
19  Well, the secretary of state's trip to Canada is putting a brand new spin on the term diplomatic relations.
20  The carpet salesman told Simone that his most expensive brand of floor covering was warranted to be impervious to ordinary wear and tear.
21  Fortunately, the damages we suffered in the accident were reparable and our car looks brand new.
22  In his speech, he emphasized the power of the Olympic brand in China's emerging market.
23  He was a midfielder of considerable strengths, a taker of sublime free-kicks, a global brand, a nice guy, a genuine role model, a petulant peacock at times but always a tireless worker for his teams.
24  Denuded of their social and political context, they serve, alongside Copacabana and the palm-fringed beaches of its northern coasts, as code for languid tropical hedonism, the brand identity of Brazil in the global tourist market.
25  The US administration recently branded him a war criminal.
26  The cowboys branded a hundred calves in the roundup.
27  Adidas and Reebok are two of the world's best known consumer brands, but they're in the shadow of Nike, the giant of the sportswear industry.
28  The move is likely to affect women and girls all over the world as international brands such as Mango and Zara have signed up to the agreement.
29  The Massachusetts Department of Public Health measured the nicotine yield of different brands between 1998 and 2004 and found a worrying increase across the board.
30  It includes a big expansion of the premium Alfa and Maserati brands, which have for years remained tantalisingly on the verge of a comeback.