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Example sentences for "brace"

Lexicographically close words:
boystrous; braave; brac; braccia; braccio; braced; bracelet; bracelets; bracer; braces
  1. Bunks are equipped with metal brace as shown in illustration.

  2. Remove mudguard brace clip locks from slots in clips so that mudguard can be dropped.

  3. Attach end of gun scabbard carrier and mudguard brace clip with special lock to long stud, replacing washer and nut.

  4. Install the two studs, washers, and nuts which secure right‐ and left‐side brace clips to frame axle clips.

  5. Fit right and left mudguard brace clip locks to right and left side rocker plate studs respectively.

  6. NOTE: Brace clip locks are made for right and left side installation.

  7. Remove nuts from studs which secure right‐ and left‐side mudguard brace clips to frame axle clips.

  8. Brace yourself back firmly on this string-piece; let me down, and the instant I have secured her in my arms, draw us both up together.

  9. A brace fell, and the remainder of the birds scurried away, flapping, and pushing themselves along the snow like queer animated canoes.

  10. We shall require some food," he said; "so let us brace ourselves up before we encounter what may prove unpleasant incidents.

  11. Brace the bottom of this curtain with a thin strip of wood, as is done in window shades.

  12. Wooden strips, an inch and a quarter wide and three inches apart, serve to brace the sides and furnish supports for the trays.

  13. The lieutenant, in his gallantry, vowed she should have half a dozen brace of fowls before he left, and Terrence volunteered to assist him.

  14. Two troopers and a horse were our only casualties, while about one hundred brace of Goojahs bit the dust.

  15. Each had hammered out a brace of hits, but their comrades had been unable to bring them in from the bags on which they were roosting.

  16. You know as well as I do what Bugs can do in the pitching line if he'll only brace up and cut out drink.

  17. If anything they took the defeat harder than the players themselves, who had learned in a hard school to take what was coming to them and brace up for revenge.

  18. Why don't you brace up, Bugs, and cut out the booze?

  19. You can't be going to have a baby till--till well on in the winter, and meantime a stay in the Highlands will brace you up.

  20. About his waist was a peaked brace of shining plate armour, damascened in gold by Malise himself, and filling out his almost girlish waist to manlier proportions.

  21. Brawny Kim scattered the embers of the fire on the forge-hearth, and threw the breastplate and girdle-brace at which the boys had been working into a corner of the smithy.

  22. Its iron gates were flung open, and in rolled, with a great deal of din, a chariot escorted by a brace of gendarmes, sword in hand.

  23. Rey provided himself with ONE holster pistol, to kill two people, knowing well that one of them had always a brace of pistols about him.

  24. Only a brace of bullets, that's all, sir.

  25. I could have had a brace of countesses in Paris for half the money, and je vous remercie into the bargain.

  26. Harkye, Mr. Jubilee, can you digest a brace of bullets?

  27. Can you brace up your courage and your nerve to stand a severe trial?

  28. He tried to brace himself to bear the worst, if it must come; but his effort was not too successful.

  29. There is no changing tide to give variety, no strong smell of seaweed nor salt breeze to brace the wearied nerves, but the wearied nerves are braced nevertheless.

  30. I strongly suspected that the limp young artisan on the other side of me was perfectly well enough to be discharged, but he could not brace himself up to part from Mary.

  31. Let each whet well His spear, brace well his shield, well feed his brisk High-mettled horses, well survey and search 460 His chariot on all sides, that no defect Disgrace his bright habiliments of war.

  32. I suppose you could lay this thug by the heels in a brace of shakes?

  33. By the time Whitaker was able to pull himself together and hobble to the door, a brace of intelligent policemen who had been summoned by the hall-boy were threatening to break it down.

  34. Dimly he became aware of the violent bawlings of a brace of news-vendors who were ramping through the street, one on either sidewalk.

  35. Brace yourself up, and you will soon become more accustomed to it.

  36. Each brace on that line is thirty-six inches long and three inches wide, with one end bolted to the centre of its pole and the other end to the cross-arm twenty-three inches from the pole centre.

  37. Each brace may be of flat bar iron about one and one-half by one-quarter inch in section, or the brace for both ends of an arm may be made of a single piece of angle-iron bent into the proper shape.

  38. Thereupon the citizen ordered a brace of partridges and a couple of cold fowls, to be served in a private room, as the ladies were too modest to think of eating in public.

  39. She seeks a fair comedian who suffers for the fault of Eve, and near whom are a brace of cavaliers in sore perplexity.

  40. I ought to have stated that, on entering the castle, we found that he was habited in the Greek costume; and that his dress was rich and costly, as were the ornaments on a dagger and brace of pistols which still were fixed in his sash.

  41. The tack was roused down, another pull had of the sheet, and the bowline hauled taut, the weather-lift and brace being hauled taut, the sail stood like a board.

  42. While he was speaking, Mitchell brought forth from his cabin his sword and two brace of pistols, which he placed on the table.

  43. Every brace and bowline was taut to a nicety.

  44. No doubt you are right, but I would like to see them punished, and I am curious enough to wish to know what object that scoundrel could have in ripping out the blocks that served as a brace for the tank.

  45. I must brace up that tank and put in a new high-tension wire from the spark coil.

  46. I had a brace of pistols with me, unloaded; and I slept without any anxiety.

  47. Hediger filled a glass, stepped up to Frymann and said: "Come, old friend and comrade, take a swallow of wine and brace up.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brace" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    advocate; animate; appeal; application; arm; back; backbone; backing; band; bandage; bandeau; bar; beam; bear; bearer; beg; belt; bend; bind; binder; bolster; both; brace; bracer; bracket; bundle; button; buttress; cane; carrier; carry; cast; cervix; chain; cheer; cinch; clamp; column; compress; confirm; conjure; corset; cotton; couple; couplet; cradle; crave; crook; crutch; cushion; degree; doublet; dressing; duet; duo; dyad; enliven; exhilarate; fastener; fortify; freshen; fulcrum; gauze; gird; girdle; girth; guy; harden; hold; invigorate; lace; lacing; lash; leash; line; lint; mainstay; maintain; mast; match; neck; nerve; pair; pillow; plaster; plead; pledget; post; poultice; pray; prepare; prop; quicken; ready; reassure; refresh; regale; reinforce; reinforcement; renew; rest; revive; rigging; roller; rope; scold; shore; shoulder; shroud; sling; space; span; spine; splice; splint; sponge; staff; stave; stay; steady; steel; stick; stiffen; stimulate; strap; strengthen; strengthener; subsidize; support; supporter; sustain; sustainer; swathe; tampon; tape; team; temper; tense; tent; thwart; tie; tighten; toughen; tourniquet; truss; two; underlie; underpinning; uphold; upholder; vivify; wire; wrap; yoke