How To Use Brushed In A Sentence
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But I needed to know who it was so I pulled out a comb and brushed my hair forward a little and put it to the side.
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You see them muttering together in corners, their skin grey and baggy and their unbrushed hair matted with Playdoh.
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He stood and brushed the crumbs of bread off of him, knowing well how difficult it would be to follow his own advice.
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She pushed the feeling away from her heart while she brushed Darren's fringe away from his eyes.
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Bamie brushed aside this cruel fate as if it were no more than a nuisance.
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Next, something brushed past him, and he encountered it with a snarl and a splashing of his forepaws.
CHAPTER XX
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I don't think I can compete with your stained and unbrushed teeth in the turn-offs department.
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He brushed the dirt off his coat cursing the whole evening, mainly for the damage it had done to his good coat.
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But, soundly as Tom Tallington slept, the scriggly legs of a beetle were rather too much when they began to work in his ear, and he started up and brushed the creature away, the investigating insect falling on the floor with a sharp rap.
Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp
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The afternoon sunset had tinted the white clouds and blue sky into subtle, mellow shades and the fresh, wet winds brushed our faces as we were transported to the tideland in an ox cart.
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He stopped when he saw her, her thread bare cotton skirt hiked up to her knees as her feet brushed the top of the water underneath a willow tree.
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As long as the clothes are clean and his teeth are brushed, he's kind to others and he stays out of jail - it'll be okay.
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If I arrived at a job interview with unbrushed teeth and hair sticking through my panty hose, I'd get hired for not making an effort.
Beauty
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He brushed away a tear.
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Oh, and let me tell you… I already did my hair, brushed my teeth, shaved, plucked, primped, deodorized, sprayed myself with cologne and got dressed before he even picked out the underwear he was going to wear.
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The case itself is rather light, as would be expected with an aluminum case, and the brushed metal and rounded curves look great.
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Her hair was brushed and gleaming, her white jumpsuit had been exchanged for a pair of trousers and a huge coat, both in dark blue.
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A hand that trembled slightly brushed against his forehead as if it could wipe away the weariness.
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As we crossed the Baltic in a shared ship's cabin, my mother watched to make sure I brushed my hair and teeth morning and night and chastised me for wearing clothes that were too creased or skirts that were too short.
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Why, there, if a college student comes downtown with a flareback coat and heart-shaped trousers and one of those nifty little pompadour hats that are brushed back from the brow to give the brains a chance to grow, they arrest him for collecting a crowd and disturbing traffic.
At Good Old Siwash
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Proof that they had sought and received permission from the general chief of staff was brushed aside.
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During the baseline phase, not a single patient who was observed had the oral cavity assessed, teeth brushed, lips and mouth moisturized, oropharyngeal area suctioned, or suction tubing changed.
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McDonnell campaign spokesman Tucker Martin brushed off the Democratic criticism.
Democrats thump Pawlenty for Virginia appearance
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Stepping back, she straightened the bow tie and brushed the lint off the lapels of his jacket.
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Each field is built up of gesso, each layer sanded to a flawless finish, the last one airbrushed smoother than any shell.
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His hair shone in the light as he brushed it away from his face.
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The needles were bleached with a 4% sodium hypochloride solution which macerates the mesophyll, and vascular and epidermal tissue were brushed off.
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She brushed past him, slung her bags beneath the old oak hatrack beside the door.
Black Blade
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Then she brushed off her hands and went back to the pulley rope.
FOLLY
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I washed up, brushed my teeth, pulled on my pajama bottoms despite the warm breeze trickling through my open window.
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But he washed his hands and brushed his hair and they descended to the dining-room, where they ate a 'table d'hote' meal, beginning with lukewarm soup and ending with salty ice cream.
Cap'n Dan's Daughter
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His fingertips brushed my chin as out our mouths collided, and passionately we kissed under the stars.
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If the curtain is dirtier , usable dishcloth dips in the scour that leave cleans some of Wen Shuirong, hartshorn of usable also a few is brushed.
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Preparatory to anything else Mr Bloom brushed off the greater bulk of the shavings and handed Stephen the hat and ashplant and bucked him up generally in orthodox Samaritan fashion which he very badly needed.
Ulysses
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Although he ran for his life and fired into the tires, the car came so close that it brushed his pant leg.
Globe and Mail
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Her brown hair was brushed to one side of her face and the normally large eyes glinted in a slight compression.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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His shoulders are rolled forward, his hair floppy and unbrushed, and he's wearing loose blue jeans and scuffed hiking boots.
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I was told to make sure I had brushed my hair, not to wear jeans with holes in, and to put shoes on instead of wellies.
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One of the most expensive departments in a car plant is the paint shop, so DeLorean saved the money and pretended that the brushed stainless steel finish was a style feature.
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It was on that vacation that Roosevelt coined the term "bully pulpit" and brushed aside concerns about his vacation safety so soon after his predecessor was assassinated.
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She appears vulnerable - a fragile, airbrushed image.
Times, Sunday Times
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How many times had he wished that the moments their fingers touched, their shoulders brushed, their eyes met, that they could tell each other what the both already knew?
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Kate brushed her hair and fixed her eye makeup before she went downstairs to join her family in the dining room for her birthday dinner.
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So, okay, he must have left sometime after 1100 hours G.M.T. but before 1145 hours G.M.T., at almost exactly which time I returned to the cabin and brushed as well as I could all the particles of snow still clinging to my wool jacket and gloves and knitted ski cap, sea-green, and my blue jeans and rugged, well-worn work boots.
Self-Destruction, Vol. 1
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Finally she brushed past us toward the office, her cheek bright red.
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A rosy blush was used on her cheeks and a pretty pink gloss brushed across her lips.
The Sun
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All the painters in our gallery paint their works from beginning to end—Pat Steir, Jonathan Lasker—and I think their collectors like the notion that every ounce of paint on their works was brushed on by the artists alone.
The Art Assembly Line
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Norbert sang the antiphons and censed the sanctuary - I felt as though I was moving about in a dark room where strange figures brushed up against my shoulders, and strange voices guided me along.
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For a sweeter zwieback, we melted 4 tablespoons of butter with 1/4 cup sugar and 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon and brushed the mixture onto one side of the cut slices before baking them, which took 10 to 15 minutes longer because of the extra moisture.
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Cut your choice of molding to fit around the mirror and paint it, using neutral colors or a brushed gold or silver.
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Robin ducked out to look up and down the hall, then brushed past Feng as she hurried back inside.
Excerpt: Intuition by Allegra Goodman
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When Mr. Piperson returned, he found Pigling sitting before the fire; he had brushed up the hearth and put on the pot to boil; the meal was not get-at-able.
The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter
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interns, why can't they get their campaign photos airbrushed?
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Biting hard on her lower lip, Isabel brushed away a traitorous tear.
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I brushed up against the door, and some of the wet paint came off onto my coat.
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I brushed past him and pressed one of the pieces of paper into his hand.
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Maybe it was his unbrushed teeth that kept Vaughn awake.
MY BABYSITTER BITES BACK
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The rain fell steadily; wet bracken brushed her bare legs.
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Hurrying out with a profound sense of failure, she brushed by a man watching from the stairs of the rehearsal studio.
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She brushed her black wet hair with a slim hairbrush, spraying detangler into it every so often.
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When Maelgwn brushed the hair from his forehead he viewed his own affiliate, the Dragon.
THE ANCIENT FUTURE: THE DARK AGE
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My face had been blanketed in pale powder and my cheeks brushed vigorously with pinky red rouge.
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A bee buzzed near my ear, and I brushed it away.
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Wiping the corners of her mouth with the napkin, she brushed the crumbs off her denim coveralls and turned to me.
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Those who said he should serve longer for his part in the killing were brushed aside and accused of being harsh and cruel.
The Sun
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On a Nassau, Bahamas, beach, with stogie in hand, he and Chip, his longtime friend and business partner, brushed up on MPEG decoders and Zip drives.
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Julie walked up to her mother's side and brushed a piece of hair out of her face.
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He felt tears pricking his eyes again, and brushed them away.
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New for 2003 is style 556, the Fahrenheit structured mid-profile brushed cotton 6-panel cap with soft buckram and a fabric back strap and brass buckle.
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But not before I remembered my bereavement and brushed an ersatz tear from my eye.
RUNNING FROM THE LAW
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I had put on my clothes, brushed my teeth, fixed my hair and cleaned up my room a little before they came back upstairs.
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I brushed her long dark hair from her face and caressed her cheek in an effort to calm her.
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The girl nodded and brushed the loose strands of mouse brown hair from her face.
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He lifted his hand and gently brushed away the tears rolling down her cheek, with his thumb.
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While Owen brushed raindrops from his waterproof, I ran an eye over the equipment.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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She washed me, dressed me and got me to the stage on time, albeit lacking mascara or brushed hair.
Times, Sunday Times
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Materials and finishes include pewter, silk steel, sparkling chrome and brushed stainless steel.
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Putting a brave face on it, I picked myself up, brushed myself down and carried on to school, buckled front wheel wobbling like a clown's car.
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Annette brushed a kiss on his cheek before she jumped out of the truck.
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But on the doorstone he found three drops shaken, dried now but plain to be seen, and on the new and unstained timber with which the left jamb of the doorway had been repaired there was a blurred smear of blood at the level of his own shoulder, where a gashed and bloodied sleeve had brushed past.
The Hermit of Eyton Forest
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e brushed aside the tears with his sleeve.
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Just the fact that somewhere on the sidewall is the word "rotation" followed by an arrow pointing the wrong way makes me extremely uneasy, and actually riding a wheel set up this way makes me feel like a cat being brushed backwards.
Cycling Customs: Flashing the Biological Passport
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The historian brushed crumbs from the tablecloth.
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She brushed the loose dirt off her coat.
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Before welding, however, the edges of sheets should be wire-brushed and degreased.
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Kurt guided them to a foothold, and the Prince, shaved and brushed and beeswaxed and clean and big and terrible, slid down into position astride of the door.
The War in the Air
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A cool breeze brushed his face, ruffling his hair.
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The cool linen sheets tempted her to extend her toes till they touched the ivory bedstead and brushed the relief curls of a grinning cherub.
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He brushed the cigarette ash from his sleeve.
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Bradford North police last night issued an e-fit photograph of the attacker, who is described as Asian, aged about 40, with brushed back black hair flecked with grey.
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He also got one from the Road MCs with his name airbrushed on the front.
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My hair is wavy now that I rubbed fingertips of brilliantine through it and combed and brushed it.
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At that point my theological parallel was brushed aside by the realisation that this was straight out of the Monty Python dead parrot sketch.
Times, Sunday Times
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He sat next to her, and as she brushed her incredibly long flowing hair out of the way, her lonely but beautiful blue eyes met his deep brown ones.
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With his compact body and leonine looks, hair brushed back like a mane, Adam Hendrickson at 19 looks a little like the young Jean Babilee, and even dances with much of the intensity of the great French dancer.
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Her shoulder brushed a fragile stalactite, sending it crashing to the ground.
MINUTES TO BURN
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The first track further lulls you a false sense of security; a lovely, candle-flickering tune, drums brushed around a breathy sax and gently chiming vibes.
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The tuna tartare is tart yet tame, easily eclipsed by the mixed-seafood seviche sparked with pickled jalapeño or the yellowtail sliced like carpaccio and brushed with just lemon, sea salt, and basil.
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Step three is to get the brush with paste into your dog's mouth and all the teeth brushed.
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His thigh brushed against hers and she could smell his cologne and the faint scent of alcohol on his breath.
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But Imron brushed aside assumptions that the failure might carry on to Busan, saying that they would need to readapt to each other after having been apart for some time.
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This list includes the brushed metal-look instrument panel trim, ambient foot lights, and welcome illumination.
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A flat free-kick of typically deadly pace from David Beckham brushed the head of the Paraguay captain Carlos Gamarra and continued on its path to the net.
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Riley changed quickly, brushed her hair and fixed her makeup, then closed the door to her bedroom and waited in her living area.
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The word brushed against my hair, and his breath sent shivers across my scalp.
The Geek Girl's Guide to Cheerleading
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When she finished, she dressed into her clean clothes and brushed her teeth.
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Quoting again from Golf in the Kingdom: Many thoughts that arise as you are playing must be brushed aside.
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The photo shows me aloft (they airbrushed the photograph to camouflage the torn clothing).
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Metallic elements offer a plethora of textures from silky smooth silver to brushed aluminium.
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At that point none of us had so much as brushed a seatback.
Times, Sunday Times
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Norbert sang the antiphons and censed the sanctuary - I felt as though I was moving about in a dark room where strange figures brushed up against my shoulders, and strange voices guided me along.
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But he brushed aside charges that government overspending, corruption and its seizure of farms are to blame.
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These insects should be brushed from the victim's skin promptly with deliberate movements to prevent additional stings.
Stinging insect allergy
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I think you're overly dramatizing; he merely brushed against you.
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Or the Siciliano, its glorious crust brushed with tomato paste seasoned with anchovy and olives and adorned with dollops of tangy sweet-and-sour caponata and cumin-scented ricotta?
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She picked up her brush and brushed her hair until all the tangles came out.
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The leading pair brushed off one another going around the turn but it was only a trifling matter.
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Her breasts brushed his chest as he pressed closer, her breath coming in jagged pants.
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Ella brushed the crumbs off her jacket.
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He brushed a speck of dust from his sleeve as he waited for the silence he required.
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The spider web brushed my forehead.
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It sounds to me as if you've already brushed against a follower of neo-orthodoxy.
ULTIMATE PRIZES
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I don't yearn to look like an airbrushed image.
Times, Sunday Times
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I kicked off my covers and ran into the bathroom, brushed my teeth and cleaned myself off.
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Don't assume that a properly brushed comb-over will look like a full head of hair.
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The great thick braid of spun metal hung over her shoulder, and brushed his cheek as she leaned over him.
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The palm of my hand brushed up against hers; causing a spark of emotions through my arm, paining my stomach with tosses and turns.
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Focaccio is the classic Italian flatbread brushed with olive oil and topped with seasonings.
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His hand brushed across his inside pocket, where he felt the outline of the key.
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Smiling, he brushed his lips against her cheek, and just as quietly exited from the room.
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In fact it was quite cheering in many ways, that the past isn't just airbrushed away.
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He reached out and brushed a strand of hair away from her face.
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Yeats is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire.
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Two goals in each half from the league leaders saw Newry brushed aside with consummate ease and keeps the City languishing near the bottom of the table.
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She brushed some cake crumbs off her lap.
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A cat brushed against her leg in the darkness.
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He shifted his weight so that his body brushed lightly against hers.
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He brushed away the tears with his sleeve.
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The committee brushed off his enquiries with meaningless promises.
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I’m currently in RN school; all I can say is 1) thank goodness we don’t have to wear dresses anymore, horribly impractical and 2) Not only were the hats ugly, but hats were banned because research found them un-hygienic (hats brushed up against curtains and were rarely cleaned which equaled nosocomial infection)
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She brushed a frond aside to touch the bottom of the glass.
X, Chapter 2: Min
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I remember what she looked like perfectly: every piece of fur standing out in sharp relief, brushed to a glossy sheen, her breeches green and gold.
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His long, unbrushed, curly hair and unshaved face let him look kind of intimidating and his fingers bent the wrong way, which always made me twitch.
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It is a classic Gehry structure, formed from undulating polished steel and tumbling blocks of brushed aluminium that reminds Berners-Lee, he tells me, of the higgledy-piggledy Italian village one of his relatives grew up in.
The MIT factor: celebrating 150 years of maverick genius
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Trojans put their recent woes behind them as they brushed aside a dispirited Beckwithshaw side.
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A wavy mark also was printed on the floor, brushed by some type of clothing.
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Pushing the demon from her lap, she scrambled to her feet and brushed down the leathers before turning on him.
TREASON KEEP
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The aluminum bands and rivets that comprise the work can only speak of the brushed surface or the inexorable flatness of the metal.
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Her hand brushed against his crotch lightly.
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As Warwick passed the door that led from the garden, he brushed by a young man, the baudekin stripes of whose vest announced his relationship to the king, and who, though far less majestic than Edward, possessed sufficient of family likeness to pass for a very handsome and comely person; but his countenance wanted the open and fearless expression which gave that of the king so masculine and heroic a character.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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Miriam brushed off her tears, quickly but unconfusedly.
The Tragic Muse
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So whether you or a professional are styling your hair, it will be responsive to being brushed, curled, and combed.
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She reached up to push them away, but before she could Brandon brushed them away for her and tucked them behind her ear.
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Stainless steel is the most common material; durable and easy to live with, in brushed or polished finishes.
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The truffles are sorted, brushed clean, weighed on Roman scales and placed in small chestnut baskets.
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His hair was a raven black, brushed back away from his forehead.
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I said through giggles, as I pulled him from Travis, who brushed himself down and looked up from his seat.
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This canvas, in which Mr. Gershwin 's admiration for the bold-brushed style of Chaim Soutine is plain to see, is no less noteworthy for the way in which it hints at the complexity of the artist' s personality.
Unforgettable in More Than One Way
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Then he brushed his knee-length hair one hundred strokes, braided it, and tied it back with a piece of green ribbon, simply knotting it instead of tying a bow.
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Billy leaned forward and brushed a speck of dust off his shoes.
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Reality is airbrushed and we're given promises of fabulous, mythical oases of futurity.
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Using a small brush, he brushed away the fine sawdust.
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The poet's hamadryad and naiad, what are they, indeed, but cobwebby fictions, which must be brushed away if ideal truth is to be revealed?
The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years
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Malachi tried to look impassive as he struggled to his feet and brushed himself down.
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As he made his way with some difficulty through the throng, he was aware that he brushed against a man in a great peruke, who, despite the heat of the house, was wrapped in an old roquelaure tawdrily laced; also that the man was keeping stealthy pace with him, and that when he at last reached his station the cloaked figure fell into place immediately behind him.
Audrey
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I sat in the bathroom, staring at my reflection as I brushed my sopping wet hair.
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Their jeremiads yearn for an airbrushed 50's America that never really existed.
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Standing at well over six feet, he had long, dark hair with a slight wave to it that just brushed his shoulders.
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And part of the appeal is the startlingly crisp and fresh sound, a million miles away from the airbrushed fuzzy melange of most guitar bands these days.
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The rain fell steadily; wet bracken brushed her bare legs.
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Indeed, as he shut the car door, he brushed at one sleeve as if to remove wrinkles as well as fluff.
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The recipe calls for minced pork and prawn spread on a nori (sheet of dried laver seaweed), deep-fried, and then brushed with soy sauce-based sweet sauce.
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On each side a jumping dolphin had been airbrushed beautifully along the groove of the helmet.
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The lives of real working class folk have been airbrushed from our screens.
The Sun
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Alex tossed the remains of his sandwich in the garbage nearby and brushed his hands off.
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When a horse brushed against his leg he almost fainted.
The Sun
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His nipples had become tight raisins of need, and she brushed them with her fingers and then bent to suckle them, putting tears in his eyes as he moved against her harder when she finally sought his mouth again for a kiss.
Surrender the Dark
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He is almost brushed aside by the police as they pursue the kidnapper.
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His yellow pallor gave him a jaundiced look; his beard was unbrushed, his cap askew.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. Thomas Carlyle
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She heard him sigh as he brushed by her to look at the new broncs.
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She suddenly looks vulnerable in this pose, child-like and fragile, with her big trousers and unbrushed hair and her obvious willingness to please.
Alexa Chung: 'I'm probably not the best role model'
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Tight weaves or knits and fabrics without a fuzzy or napped surface are less likely to ignite and burn rapidly than open knits or weaves, or fabrics with brushed or piled surfaces such as chenille ..
Don we now our non-flammable apparel
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In a flash we had jumped up and brushed ourselves down.
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Also there were droves of smaller game -- rhebok and springbok and duikers -- which brushed past at full gallop without even noticing me.
Prester John
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The drive itself has a brushed silver/chrome look to it, and is shaped to fit your hand somewhat.
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Daniel laughed, brushed a piece of his blond hair from his eyes, and tried to skip another stone on the cobbles.
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Hailey brushed a stray strand of hair away from her face and smiled. ‘I've seen better.’
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She whispered little endearments to Rebecca, and brushed stray hairs from her forehead.
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He heard a kind of snuffle, then a buffalo just brushed him as it went past.
The Berrybender Narratives
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I wrung out a cold washrag, let it soak in the hot water as I brushed my hair, then braided it into a tight braid in the back of my head.
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It was airbrushed out of history.
Times, Sunday Times
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A, you can see what acrylic paint looks like when it is brushed on to a surface.
Crawshaw's Watercolour Studio
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As she bent over Hans to adjust his bandage the crisp white cloth of her uniform blouse, carelessly fastened, fell open and brushed his sleeping face.
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He put his cheek on my unbrushed blonde hair.
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Exterior finishes are available in polished brass, antique brass, brushed nickel, pewter, satin black and matte gold tones.
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She kicked, propelling herself forward and down until her fingers brushed the muddy bottom.
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He pushed down the hood on her cloak, and then brushed the hair away from her ears.
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He knew I was there, for his big shoulder brushed my arm as he swayed and turned to warn the helmsmen in the one breath to hold her up to it but to keep her full.
CHAPTER XXXVIII
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I am fortunate in my case, since the brushed aluminum finish by MountainMods has no paint.
