BRUSH in a Sentence

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For BRUSH, below is one of 202 sentences:
She had come so hurriedly that she had in her small carpetbag only a nightgown and a tooth brush, not even a change of underwear.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRUSH
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brush
 n.  short and sometimes occasional encounter or experience
Classic Sentence: (167 in 12 pages)
1  But suddenly his wife's face, with twisted monstrous lineaments, thrust itself between him and his goal, and he made an instinctive movement to brush it aside.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  The big house burned a year ago and the fields are growing up in brush and seedling pine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  She felt something brush her hair and wondered vaguely through her tumult if it were his lips.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  She had come so hurriedly that she had in her small carpetbag only a nightgown and a tooth brush, not even a change of underwear.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
5  Hairpins slipped out of her fingers and tinkled to the floor and when she tried to give her hair its customary hundred strokes, she banged the back of the brush hurtingly against her temple.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
6  Her own stout person and its surrounding implements took up so much room that Lily, to pass her, had to gather up her skirts and brush against the wall.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
7  She paused again to measure the effect of this announcement on her hearer, but the brush in Miss Bart's lifted hand maintained its unwavering stroke from brow to nape.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
8  Lily laid aside her brush and turned a penetrating glance upon her friend.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 6
9  But Rosedale's natural imperviousness to hints made it easy for him to brush such resistance aside.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 7
10  Most of the crumbs drop on the red plush of the seat, and the woman sighs and tries to brush them away, but they leap up impishly and fall back on the plush.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  She squealed as he leaped on a pile of brush and fired at the rabbit which ran out.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  The branches of the kinnikinic brush were red and smooth as lacquer on a saki bowl.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
13  The pale snow, the prickles of old stubble, and the clumps of ragged brush faded into a gray obscurity.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Even to a returned mother, his whining and his trick of seven times snatching her silver brush were fatiguing.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  He touched her arm, let his fist brush her side.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
16  The artwork took 10 days using a single rabbit hair as a paint brush and a microscope is required to look at the masterpiece.
17  Ever since my first brush with Bond, he has always been the older, suaver secret agent man I longed to be.
18  He reached out and brushed a strand of hair away from her face.
19  I brushed up against the door, and some of the wet paint came off onto my coat.
20  The painter brushed over the canvas to bring out a more vivid effect.
21  He tried to explain to her, but she brushed him off impatiently.
22  She touched up her lipstick and brushed her hair.
23  A cat brushed against his leg.
24  Was Bruce too brusque when he brushed off Bob's request with a curt "Not now!"?
25  Panama brushed aside North Korea's demands on Thursday that it release an impounded North Korean freighter and its 35-member crew, pressing criminal charges against all aboard for endangering public security.
26  Dust on the surface brushes off easily.
27  The best quality men's shaving brushes are made from badger bristle.
28  My canvas is my life, and I give you the colors and brushes of me.
29  Unwashed brushes are the ideal camp for acne-causing bacteria to set up in. To avoid breakouts, be sure that everything that comes into contact with your cheeks is regularly cleaned – your makeup, your phone, your pillow cases.
30  A thorough brushing helps to freshen up your mouth.