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Example sentences for "brims"

Lexicographically close words:
brim; brimful; brimless; brimmed; brimming; brimstone; brindle; brindled; brine; brines
  1. Other large objects of a thoroughly oriental character were earthenware glazed brocales or brims of wells, which, like the tinajas, were largely manufactured at Seville and Toledo.

  2. Edna Geister knows all about stunts and games and parties and she brims over with clever ideas for the hostess or recreation leader.

  3. So, when with crackling flames a caldron fries, The bubbling waters from the bottom rise: Above the brims they force their fiery way; Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day.

  4. Go tempt some bawdy judge or warden, Or mind your brims in Covent Garden: Let the home-thrust you got to-day Teach you from broils to keep away.

  5. Eight horses fretted in a ragged line far down the street, and as they frisked here and there the brims of the sombreros of the riders flapped up and down; only the Eden gray stood with downward head, dreaming.

  6. The broad brims on one side, with the scoop bonnets on the other, used to excite my curiosity, but I did not like to sit still so long.

  7. A palm in the sands, That was my palace; a palm with a soul Breathing of beauty when each leaf expands Out to the desert which brims like a bowl-- Brims like a bowl of Falernian wine Turned to the sun!

  8. The schoolmaster had made him a present of the tie-wig which he wore, when I was introduced to him, together with an old hat, whose brims would have overshadowed a Colossus.

  9. They looked round and saw no one more alarming than a very severe-looking old gentleman, whose hat brim in spite of his severity was limp with much lifting, as all Austrian hat brims are.

  10. Cut off the brims of the hat, and then my friend would have but one: and the brims of the hat were but to defend him from weather.

  11. Now is Bartholomew for turkeycocks, Old wines decant, the chandeliers flare up, The slave row brims with lights; And horses gallop off to summon guests.

  12. I know her in the thrill behind the dark When sleep brims all her silent thoroughfares.

  13. The amazing life of those days brims behind them.

  14. Up swept the desert air, the luminous pale shadows, the naked desolation that yet brims with sharp vitality.

  15. For a few instants her heart swelled with profound emotions as she pressed that hand which was thus kindly extended to her, and tears rose to the very brims of her eyes, but did not run over.

  16. His apparel consisted of a seedy suit of black--a hat with very wide brims bent even to slouching--and a pair of heavy Wellington boots; and in his hand he carried a thick stick with a huge nob at one end and a massive ferrule at the other.

  17. The boys were standing in a group, holding their hat brims down to shield their eyes from the bitter glare of the sun while they gazed up into the sky, their faces turned towards the south.

  18. Sudden and Bill perforce turned and held their own hat brims while they looked.

  19. But what it wanted in one place was supplied in another, the brims whereof being so large, they might have conveniently served as a Pent-house for another besides himself.

  20. Hats with enormous brims were worn of the style shown in Fig.

  21. The broad brims of the hats were frequently turned up on two sides, and were ornamented with feathers or ribbons.

  22. Tschaikowsky’s music brims with a warm humanity and stirring drama.

  23. Tall cylinder hats, with folded brims or no brim, and other shapes are illustrated.

  24. It is often seen with the brims loose, or sometimes down, especially amongst the lower classes.

  25. Hats of straw with mushroom brims and round tops came into vogue in the 11th century, covered with coloured materials and finished with a spike or button at the top, and the crowns of these took a pointed shape in the 14th century.

  26. Brims were often fastened up on the right side with a jewel; otherwise a band was buckled in front.

  27. The brims of all the hats began to enlarge at the end of the century when the very high crowned wide brimmed hat made its appearance, sometimes with a peaked top, and beaver is first mentioned in their make.

  28. Hats were still high in the crown, but rather lower than with James I; the large brims were turned about in various curves, and feathers were worn falling over the brims to the side or back.

  29. The conical mushroom-shaped roof is composed of the same material, and the brims hang over the column, being three or four inches wider than its perpendicular sides.

  30. When they discovered, by repeated descents from the brims of the glasses, that they were thus surrounded by a wet ditch, they all set themselves to the task of throwing their silken bridges across.

  31. It brims over with humor showing the bright and laughing side of ranch life.


  32. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brims" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.