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Example sentences for "brash"

Lexicographically close words:
branks; branle; branny; brasen; brasero; brasier; brasiers; brass; brassard; brasse
  1. You'll get used to it," one particularly brash fellow would comment as I propped myself up on the counter after a long and grueling siege.

  2. It is my opinion that only a brash fool could not love this atmosphere.

  3. Am I now," snarled the other, resenting the implication that his brick-red head was a brash basket into which to pack all his chances of safety, such as were not anchored to the poor stay of a few fickle matches.

  4. In Donegal you will hear 'that's a good brash of hail.

  5. Water-brash (Munster), severe acidity of the stomach with a flow of watery saliva from the mouth.

  6. With hickory are associated the properties of great strength, toughness, and resilience, but some pieces are comparatively weak and brash and ill-suited for the exacting demands for which good hickory is peculiarly adapted.

  7. The impression prevails that southern hickory is more porous and brash than hickory from the north.

  8. The officer in the silver helmet looked up and spotted the outline of the brash youth standing atop the parapet, brandishing a musket.

  9. Where was the brash vice admiral, the man who had wanted him imprisoned below decks?

  10. There are still large floes on either side of us, but they are not much hummocked; there are pools of water on their surface, and the lanes between are filled with light brash and only an occasional heavy floe.

  11. As I lay in my bunk last night I seemed to note a measured crush on the brash ice, and to-day first it was reported that the floes had become smaller, and then we seemed to note a sort of measured send alongside the ship.

  12. The swell has increased considerably, but it is impossible to tell from what direction it comes; one can simply note that the ship and brash ice swing to and fro, bumping into the floe.

  13. Meanwhile the brash and thinner floes are melting; everything of that sort must help--but it's trying to the patience to be delayed like this.

  14. Later in the night we passed out of this into long lanes of water and some of thin brash ice, hence the progress made.

  15. Within three minutes my pony was wallowing, with only his head and forelegs visible, in a mess of brash and snow, which had concealed a crack in the sea-ice which was obviously not going to remain much longer in its present position.

  16. I was in a feverish hurry, and with Titus and Cherry selected a possible route over about six floes, and some low brash ice.

  17. The brash ice was so thin that, had a 'Killer' come up then he would have scattered it, and the lot of us into the water like chaff.

  18. And then one day there came the shadow of movement on the sea, the faintest crush on the brash ice, the whisper of great disturbances afar off.

  19. This was filled with smashed-up brash ice, which was heaving up and down to the swell like the contents of a cauldron.

  20. I had no eyes or ears for anything but the horse just then, and getting on to the thin brash ice got the Alpine rope fast to each of the pony's forefeet.

  21. In his eagerness "Gorm" jumped out upon some pieces of ice which were floating in the thick brash in the channel, and now he was afraid to jump back again.

  22. As the brash was still very thick we did not think it possible to haul ourselves along without using the steam windlass, so I gave orders to start a fire under the boiler.

  23. The lanes otherwise are beginning to improve; they are no longer so full of brash and slush; it is melting away, and bridges and such-like have a better chance of forming in the clearer water.

  24. In some places, however, the brash was pressed so tightly together that we could walk on it.

  25. Brash had dropped in her ear the dreadful word pneumonia.

  26. Brash and Ailie, heavy-eyed, beside the bed in the attic bower, shivered at the sound of it, and looked with fear and yearning at the sleeping child.

  27. Brash came out of Dyce's house for the first time in two days, very sunken in the eyes and sorely needing shaving, and it could be noticed by the dullest that he had his jaunty walk and a flower in the lapel of his badly crushed coat.

  28. I feel so brash and brave myself in the morning I could skip the hills like a goat.

  29. Brash to Colin Cleland, seeing revealed the pink, plump flesh between the short sleeves and the top of the mittens.

  30. They had been much together early in life and Lady Beldonald was immensely fond of her--would in fact have tried to get hold of her before hadn't Mrs. Brash been always in bondage to family duties, to the variety of her tribulations.

  31. Mrs. Brash isn't my 'companion' in the sense you appear to mean.

  32. There couldn't fail of course to be ways in which poor Mrs. Brash paid for it.

  33. If frankly now I couldn't help giving Mrs. Brash a longer look, so after it I could as little resist sounding my converser.

  34. Mrs. Brash had turned up, if I remember, early in the new year, and her little wonderful career was in our particular circle one of the features of the following season.

  35. Oh I understood perfectly, and what I at first most understood was that even when I had brought in the name of Mrs. Brash intelligence wasn't yet in Mrs. Munden.

  36. We can't turn round and say Mrs. Brash is ugly, can we?

  37. The point is of course that if there was a conscious bargain, and our action on Mrs. Brash is to deprive her of the sense of keeping her side of it, various things may happen that won't be good either for her or for ourselves.

  38. Ursula and Mrs. Brash going into another sub-committee on the lounge.

  39. Nervous little Mrs. Brash said that was just the difficulty; when it actually came to the point you could think of nothing that you ought to remember.

  40. Mrs. Brash enlarged tearfully and at great length on the diamond necklace her late husband had given her.

  41. Mrs. Brash announced that she wasn’t ever going to take her clothes off any more till the war was over, if this was the sort of goings-on we were to expect.

  42. From the high price of sugar we naturally floated on to the ruinous tendencies of butcher’s meat, and Mrs. Brash explained the trouble she had with her butcher because he wouldn’t send home all the bones.

  43. Mrs. Brash hurriedly said what she so much admired in Queen Alexandra was her figure.

  44. Mrs. Brash certainly looked relieved; but then she is a very nervous little woman with a weak heart.

  45. Mrs. Brash seemed to feel that was conclusive proof of the desirability of the combination.

  46. He was broguein' along mighty brash on his own two feet.

  47. Ye talks mighty brash erbout ther sacredness of ther Revenue laws--wa'al, listen ter me afore ye talks any more.

  48. I aimed ter warn ye erbout this Bear Cat's threat ter rip out stills--albeit we deems hit ter be mostly brash talk," Carmichael explained.

  49. Too brash and rash for me [checking off that candidate on the next finger], and I'll have none of him.

  50. A man of action, then, should appeal to thy brash tastes.

  51. The accompanying section of the old and small stone-roofed church of Killaghy, at the village of Cloghereen, near Killarney, is the result of an accurate examination of that building by Mr. Brash of Cork.

  52. Some of these peculiarities are shown in the accompanying ground-plan drawn by Mr. Brash (see woodcut, Fig.

  53. When me and Jim heard that we didn't feel as brash as what we did before.

  54. The brash between the floes is so thick and heavy that we cannot push through without a great expenditure of power, and then for a short distance only.

  55. Scoresby's use of the term drift-ice for pieces of ice intermediate in size between floes and brash has, however, quite died out).

  56. The two bags of clothing were bobbing about amid the brash and glacier-ice to the windward side of the spit, and it did not seem possible to reach them.

  57. Includes all sizes between brash on the one hand and fields on the other.

  58. The pack now forces us to go west 14 miles, when we break through a long line of heavy brash mixed with large lumps and 'growlers' We do this under the fore-topsail only, the engines being stopped to protect the propeller.

  59. The loose brash between the masses of ice was being churned to mudlike consistency, and no boat could have lived in the channels that opened and closed around us.

  60. I would peety the wolf that was brash eno' to tackle the heels o' my ponies.

  61. If the wolves are that brash up here, there may be more of the lot.

  62. But to admit that this perfection was adequate would have deprived the Space Service of a convenient minor penal detail to take care of brash junior officers.

  63. Now, Mr. Reed, you've committed nothing but a brash act of bad taste in bypassing the standard channels.

  64. Mr Brash mutters darkly that one of these days a director must swing.

  65. Mr Brash suddenly, as if from some internal missal.

  66. Mr Brash raises clenched hands to heaven and clamours for a revolution.

  67. Mrs Brash had fired the train and Killick was the explosion.

  68. After this singularly convincing peroration Mr Winch fell back into line with his companions, amid the sotto voce commendations of Messrs Brash and Killick.

  69. Mr Albert Brash is an expert in the art of what may be called Righteous Indignation.

  70. There was not a man among us who could have handled that gravity platform indoors, not one who would have had the brash temerity to try it.

  71. And now begin to live, breathe, and act as a Dixie bred man would do, ready to knock anybody flat who'd be so brash as to say one insulting word about your native Southland.

  72. Yeou doant reckon as haow he'd be so brash as to hire a ship, to try an' sit on aour tail, do yeou, ole hoss?

  73. Must say you're almighty brash with your chewin' tobacco," Long Jim grinned.


  74. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brash" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abrupt; adventurous; aggressive; arrogant; audacious; basalt; bearish; beastly; bedrock; bluff; blunt; bold; brash; brassy; brazen; breccia; brusque; cavalier; challenging; cheeky; churlish; cloudburst; confident; conglomerate; contemptuous; crag; crusty; curt; daring; defiant; deluge; derisive; disdainful; disregardful; disrespectful; downfall; downpour; downright; ebullient; effervescent; exuberant; flip; flippant; flood; foolhardy; foolish; forward; fresh; gay; gneiss; granite; gratuitous; gruff; harsh; hasty; hotheaded; immodest; impertinent; impolitic; improvident; imprudent; impudent; incautious; inconsiderate; indiscreet; injudicious; insolent; lava; madcap; maladroit; monolith; nervy; outspoken; overconfident; overweening; pert; plash; pour; presumptuous; prune; pushful; pushing; rainstorm; rash; reckless; rough; rubble; rude; sandstone; sassy; saucy; schist; scoria; scree; scud; severe; shameless; sharp; short; smart; snippy; soaker; spate; spout; stone; surly; tactless; thoughtless; truculent; unadvised; unconsidered; undiplomatic; unwary; uppish; uppity; waterspout; wild; wise