BREW in a Sentence

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Gulping down the bitter brew of parched corn and dried sweet potatoes that passed for coffee, she went out to join the girls.

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 Meanings and Examples of BREW
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brew
 v.  boil or seethe; cook; be in a state of preparation; be mixing, forming, or gathering
Classic Sentence:
1  I'll not brew a drop of the salt liquid for a man who's served me so.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
2  Tis said that the last brew at the Woman is very pretty drinking.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: 3 The Custom of the Country
3  Gulping down the bitter brew of parched corn and dried sweet potatoes that passed for coffee, she went out to join the girls.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  By the evening of that day Napoleon was back at work, and on the next day it was learned that he had instructed Whymper to purchase in Willingdon some booklets on brewing and distilling.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
5  Holmes had been seated for some hours in silence with his long, thin back curved over a chemical vessel in which he was brewing a particularly malodorous product.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
6  Hear me, men of Ithaca, and I speak more particularly to the suitors, for I see mischief brewing for them.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK II
7  No brewing was going on in it, and none seemed to have gone on for a long long time.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
8  I once listened myself outside a tent when there was a mutiny brewing.
Arms and the Man By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
9  The indefinite things which were brewing gradually acquired a strange and indescribable notoriety.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
10  Just as she had brewed emotion, she spilt it.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
Example Sentence:
1  Come into the kitchen while I brew up.
2  The movie is a potent brew of adventure, sex and comedy.
3  The film is a rich brew of adventure, sex and comedy.
4  As you brew, so must you drink.
5  He sells the wine as soon as he can brew.
6  The tea is going to brew and will be served soon.
7  A teapot under a cosy is stewing, not brewing, the tea.
8  It was too quiet - I felt that trouble was brewing.
9  Families tuck in to hearty meals of sausages and rye bread, and men play cards over glasses of locally brewed beer.
10  This beer has been brewed using traditional methods.