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Example sentences for "brim"

Lexicographically close words:
brilliancy; brilliant; brilliantine; brilliantly; brilliants; brimful; brimless; brimmed; brimming; brims
  1. Old Jerry bowed to them from the doorway--he bowed till the water trickled in a stream from the brim of his battered hat.

  2. He sprang erect then, spilling a cataract of water from his hat brim in a chill trickle down the back of his neck, and barked a shrilly staccato command at the placid horse.

  3. The place behind his ear Would brim its cup with bliss and overbrim; Oh, to be worn and fade beside his cheek!

  4. The bird came down on my heart, As on a nest the rover Cuckoo comes, and shoves over The brim each careful part Of love, takes possession and settles her down, With her wings and her feathers does drown The nest in a heat of love.

  5. A hole a foot wide, two feet deep, and two feet long, is dug, and sage-brush chopped up and burned in it till it is full to the brim with glowing coals.

  6. We never moved a muscle all night, but waked at early dawn in the original positions, and got up at once, thoroughly refreshed, free from soreness, and brim full of friskiness.

  7. We beat that, however, two days afterward when we made twenty-seven miles in twenty-seven minutes, while our Champagne glasses filled to the brim spilled not a drop!

  8. Leaning just gently forward out of the perpendicular, easy and nonchalant, with broad slouch-hat brim blown square up in front, and long riata swinging above the head, they swept through the town like the wind!

  9. It's brim full of iron-ore, sir--brim full of it!

  10. To champagne, that sparkles and foams as the beaded bubbles burst at the brim of the glass, Demetrio preferred the native tequila, limpid and fiery.

  11. Quail shouted, twisting back the brim of his hat.

  12. Mr. Driscoll's hat brim was still over his eyes.

  13. She glared at him, but his hat brim shielded off her resentment; and without another word she swept indignantly out of the room.

  14. And filling the glass nearly to the brim he downed the huge potion at a single draught.

  15. And a blast of wind leaped down the street and lifted the brim of Barry's hat and set the bandana at his throat fluttering.

  16. He was not larger than the doctor; a slender fellow, almost dapper in his dress, with hardly a sign of travel about him, except that the brim of his sombrero was folded back from his face as if from continual pressure of wind.

  17. With a motion fully as deliberate he removed his sombrero and bowed to such a depth that the brim of the hat brushed the floor.

  18. Here," said the secretary, "is a cloak and hat with a broad brim which will somewhat conceal the features of the Vicomte.

  19. They were all younger than she was, and full to the brim of their own various interests.

  20. She knew only that they stood alone together in a vast space that was filled to the brim with the noonday sunshine.

  21. With the most refined impertinence he drew the brim of his hat over his eyes and stuck his hand into his waistcoat pockets as he surveyed the other.

  22. Kaulmann filled a large goblet to the brim with foaming champagne and handed it to Peter.

  23. The middle-aged Don is, like all successful professional men, full to the brim of affairs.

  24. They say five hundred asses follow her Wherever she makes progresses abroad And spend their milk to brim a bath for her, That her sweet flesh and delicate lose not That melting softness and that lucency!

  25. The forelock hung down in a curl from under the brim of the old gray hat and the lavender muffler swung at loose ends.

  26. Rose Mary laughed as she took a tin-cup from a nail in the wall, and filling it with milk from one of the crocks, she knelt at the side of the deserted one and held the brim to the red lips of Shoofly's generous mouth.

  27. If this is found to be very difficult, lay the brim aside, with the velvet pinned on, for an hour or for overnight, and the velvet will be found to give a little more.

  28. A Panama hat may be made less severe-looking by the addition of an underfacing on the brim of some sheer material, such as georgette or crêpe de chine, finished off at the edge over a wire.

  29. If these measurements are carefully made, the brim will be exactly like the pattern.

  30. If the general shape of the brim is to be changed, remove the edge wire and trim to the required width.

  31. These are very pretty perched on the edge of a brim or among flowers on the hat.

  32. A hat with slightly drooping brim faced with some shade of rose will add color to the cheeks.

  33. Begin to sew at left of wire joining, while holding underside of brim towards you.

  34. If the brim is to roll closely on one side and much higher than on the other, extra wires will be needed to fill the space.

  35. A hat is seldom made with all sections of the brim of equal width, and this is one important reason why it is more satisfactory first to make a paper pattern.

  36. The material is often gathered in small quarter-inch tucks at the points where the tuck may be sewed to the circle wire on the brim or the crown.

  37. Place the material from which the brim is to be made upon a flat surface.

  38. This may be employed on a crown or brim or both, and it then becomes a part of the design.

  39. Jimmie Dale's fingers were industriously rolling a cigarette, as, under the brim of his slouch hat, his eyes were noting every detail around him.

  40. Jimmie Dale edged in close to the building as he slouched by, so close that his hat brim seemed to touch the windowpane.

  41. He raised his hand to jerk aimlessly at the brim of his hat, dropped his hand abruptly to his side again, and started quickly, hurriedly away through the throng around him.

  42. Jimmie Dale smiled with his eyes--which were hidden by the brim of his bat.

  43. His hand reached up to his hat, jerked the brim at a rakish angle over his eyes--and he sprawled himself out on a chair.

  44. And Gaspare came running down from the terrace, the wide brim of his white linen hat flapping round his sun-browned face.

  45. And Norma, at this point in her circling and confused thoughts, would drop her face in the crook of her bent arm, and the tears would brim over again and again.

  46. Also he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and five cubits the height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

  47. And the thickness of it was an handbreadth, and the brim of it like the work of the brim of a cup, with flowers of lilies; and it received and held three thousand baths.

  48. He looked at her keenly over the brim of the brilliant wine-cup.

  49. She lifted her wet hand and drew it along the stone brim of the fountain.

  50. She was full to the brim of proverbial wisdom, and had a little clique of her own in that semicircle of flimsy net, glittering gold thread, and withered hands.

  51. Having finally entered the room, he remains standing close by the door, crushing his hat brim in his fist and murmuring through his rough, yellow beard: "I have a word to say to the priest.

  52. Who would have thought that the excited boy was at this moment standing in a room in the priest's house, wearing on his cheek a veritable Alpine glow, while with both hands he was crushing the brim of his hat!

  53. But he gazed at me in a peculiar way from under the brim of his hat and replied, "Then the priest would be a devil in the church and an angel on the street.

  54. He rested the brim against the edge of the table, looking down the two rows of faces towards Amplett at the end.

  55. Beneath the brim of the helmet, which he had not laid aside, the Jew's keen black eyes were watching, watching.

  56. When she turned, her veil had slipped from the brim of her hat down over her face.


  57. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brim" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bank; board; border; brilliant; brim; brink; brow; charge; chock; coast; cram; crowd; edge; fill; flange; flow; frame; freight; fringe; hem; jam; lade; ledge; limb; limit; lip; list; load; margin; pack; pad; peak; perimeter; periphery; rim; satiate; saturate; sell; selvage; shore; side; skirt; stuff; surfeit; verge; wad; weight