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make understandable and clear
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earn as a salary or wage
How much does your wife take home after taxes and other deductions?
How To Use bring home In A Sentence
- Among our number, there must be some who can bring home to the viewers the value and fascination of history as an art and science.
- A police inspector or public prosecutor can bring home twice as much, the equivalent of around $150,000 a year. In contrast, Brazil's per capita national income stands well below $10,000 annually.
- I caught it, glowing but heatless, the last story to ever cross that field, losing its fire like every story we'd tried to bring home from that dump. Prom Date
- Reading a novel or a poem or a collection of essays requires only that you bring home the book, curl up in your favorite chair and begin.
- High-flying oratory proved utterly inefficacious in winning any major foreign-policy result he set himself to bring home in triumph. Terry Krepel: John L. Perry's Greatest Obama-Hating Hits
- JGK: All a person needs to do is bring home one "gravid" female bedbug Msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines
- The City of Angels, back then, was where an average filmland contract player could earn more in a week than most American families could bring home in a year; where over a million new arrivals had turned Los Angeles into the fifth-biggest city in the country; where fortunes were to be made overnight and–if you believed the newspapers–the fun never stopped. Chaplin’s Girl
- Of flowering plants there are, as far as at present is known, 185 species, and 40 cryptogamic species, making together 225; of this number I was fortunate enough to bring home Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
- The sport was very fine; and after spoiling the trees, Philetus was left to "shuck" and bring home a load of the fruit, while Fleda and Hugh took their way slowly down the mountain. Queechy
- Mr Ashman, who has now turned into a professional question setter for radio quiz shows, said it was nice for England to bring home at least one trophy this year.