Similar words: brush, brush off, brush up, brushing, toothbrush, brush fire, scrub brush, rushed. Meaning: [brʌʃ] adj. 1. touched lightly in passing; grazed against 2. (of hair or clothing) groomed with a brush 3. (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing.
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151. The rain fell steadily; wet bracken brushed her bare legs.
152. Emanuel Shinwell's rhetoric, and the arguments which Crosland himself had developed in his writing, could not be brushed aside.
153. But then, with an exclamation of self-mockery, she went into the galley and brushed the hairs into the waste bin.
154. My right one, sort of like some one brushed the back side of it.
155. Mr Trotter breathed heavily as he brushed past his wife and stomped heavily up the stairs.
156. Some one should dig it out from the carpet under which it was brushed and blow the dust off it.
157. Conference-goers, though, brushed aside the news as a blip on the political radar screen.
158. The former health secretary brushed aside talk of a demotion by referring to himself as the new Minister for Majorism.
159. The inside of the fitting should be brushed out with a special wire brush and rubbed with wire wool.
160. The abrasive new general brushed aside Stirling's request and proceeded to give him a lecture.
161. But he brushed aside charges that government overspending, corruption and its seizure of farms are to blame.
162. 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
163. Carrie's bright blue eyes mirrored her good health and she hummed happily to herself as she brushed down her best coat.
164. Finally she brushed past us toward the office, her cheek bright red.
165. When at last she got into bed she allowed herself a few angry tears, then brushed them furiously away. Sentencedict.com
166. All the assurances that the treaty would not inaugurate an arms race or cost the United States anything were brushed aside.
167. They broke or brushed aside the obstacles that stood in their way, and made no secret of paying any necessary bribes.
168. And when a problem can not be brushed aside, then a scapegoat must be found.
169. These she brushed aside and raced by, to their evident great relief.
170. He had refused to buy any new clothes for the wedding but the brown suit had been brushed and pressed.
171. The bedchamber was hung with silks which were so fine that they bruised if something brushed against them.
172. Quoting again from Golf in the Kingdom: Many thoughts that arise as you are playing must be brushed aside.
173. He tugged off the leather breastplate, then the tunic, and brushed at the blood.
174. He was wearing pale blue brushed denim pants and a pale blue shirt that made his blue eyes look nearly luminous.
175. The truffles are sorted, brushed clean, weighed on Roman scales and placed in small chestnut baskets.
176. Two guards came down the passageway, brushed past Oswald and entered the cell.
177. Bamie brushed aside this cruel fate as if it were no more than a nuisance.
178. His hair fell over his brow instead of being brushed straight back.