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Example sentences for "brass"

Lexicographically close words:
brasen; brasero; brash; brasier; brasiers; brassard; brasse; brasserie; brasses; brassie
  1. If they ever elect another Supreme Exalted Ruler, all he can do is to wear a brass crown and a red robe; I'll still handle the funds.

  2. Suddenly there arose sweet strains of music upon the air, and down the street at a quick march, accompanied by happy Billy Ricks, came the Battlesburg brass band.

  3. Rufus, when I cut my finger I bleed yellow, and the mere sight of a brass button gives me hydrophobia.

  4. Now let's get down to brass tacks, Mr. Tinkle.

  5. Wallingford opened it and was confronted by a tall and stoutly built gentleman, who wore a blue helmet and numerous brass buttons upon his clothes.

  6. There was a brass to him with mitre and his arms, but no figure.

  7. And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.

  8. But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.

  9. We also found small shapeless pieces of oxidised metal, brass or copper.

  10. At the other side the old gentleman told me to reach down for a brass knob.

  11. He had brought all the women beads and ribbons, and the men brass rings.

  12. Honest she was not, for she stole from me first a brass knitting-pin, which I used at that time; it was formed like a bodkin, and the woman never imagined but that it was gold.

  13. The first time I received the holy communion during this prison governor's time, two brass candlesticks which did not match were brought in, with tallow candles.

  14. I was well aware that she had it, for it is not so small as not to be seen, so I said afterwards, 'This brass pin is of no great importance; I can get another for two pence.

  15. I cannot tell you of anything in the first Four years of John's life worth mentioning save that at that early age he was tempted by Three large Brass Pins belonging to a girl who lived in the family & stole them.

  16. The tinkling cymbal and the sounding brass should be nothing to her.

  17. And nobody cares one brass button for him or his opinions," said Stanbury, bringing down his hand heavily on the little table for the sake of emphasis.

  18. Of course you know that we haven't as much as a brass farthing among us?

  19. They wanted beads and bits of shiny brass wire, or gay-colored cloth, to make themselves look, as they thought, very fine.

  20. We will get many things for him, lots of beads to put around our necks, some brass wire to make rings for our noses and ankles, and red cloth to wear.

  21. He went further and saw a brass plate--"Arthur Lennox, M.

  22. His brother had rooms a few doors away, and was the proprietor of a brass plate which bore four letters after his name--Arthur Lennox, M.

  23. Sawyer hurriedly concealed the pages of "The Brass Bound Pirate of the Pacific, or the One Eyed Man in the Crimson Mask.

  24. She would be sent to a first-class school, where they turned out women, and not mechanical scholars, the result of the cramming process of the brass plated Seminary for Young Ladies.

  25. Be this as it may, all the bones of the Popes now rest together in the dull little porphyry urn, crowned with a brass tiara.

  26. A collection of strigils, or brass scrapers, to be used after the bath.

  27. Another of the respondents says: 'Since then, although Satan tempts me, there is as it were a wall of brass around me, so that his darts cannot touch me.

  28. One likes to think how old Vanderbilt had the brass and ornaments taken off the locomotives on the New York Central road.

  29. The houses on Main Street were mostly so white as to be hardly distinguishable from the snow in winter, though many of them belonged, architecturally at least, to the last century, and had brass knockers on the doors.

  30. It was a brass ring resembling a dog's collar, but without any opening, and soldered fast round his neck, so loose as to form no impediment to his breathing, yet so tight as to be incapable of being removed except by the use of the file.

  31. Tie together the two brass rings and fasten them firmly to the center of the reverse side.

  32. Small brass rings may be used at the top instead of loops, and the drawing string may be run through them.

  33. Thread a length into a needle and tie one end of it to one of the brass rings.

  34. In the center of this 3/4-inch space, one inch from the upper edge and one inch from the lower edge of the book, pierce a hole and insert the brass clamps.

  35. They had blue uniforms with lots of brass buttons and a large blue cap with a leather bridle that they used to wear over the top.

  36. Then, as a last touch to the decorations, we filled our brass candle sticks with real candles and set them in the windows as a greeting to those living across the lake.

  37. The second spring my father and another settler securing some brass kettles, went to a maple grove a mile below their homes on the river bank and commenced gathering sap for sugar.

  38. The second year I was here, I traded with an Indian, two small pigs for a brass kettle and an Indian blanket.

  39. Quantities of copper and brass utensils burnished until they were like mirrors hung in rows.

  40. Well, we kept on digging into things, and after a while Mark hauled out one of those old-fashioned photograph-albums that fasten with a brass catch in front.

  41. As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

  42. Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it may be consumed.

  43. Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.

  44. His eyes were put out and he was bound with double fetters of brass and carried to Babylon, where he died a prisoner (Jere.

  45. Made of good quality tin, black japanned, nickel and brass trimmed.

  46. Same style as cut, but has three double upright magnets, nicely painted and decorated; brass posts.

  47. Samuel, boy that he was, felt how much lovelier his mother's simple living room was with its shining brass and the few plants blooming at the window.

  48. How he despised himself for being such a small boy when he saw his brother Harry in his blue uniform with the brass buttons!

  49. Holly and mistletoe festooned the doorways, logs roared on brass andirons, and silver-sconced candles glowed against an ivory softness of white wainscoting and the waxed darkness of mahogany.

  50. Tonight would see the opening of the Horse Show with the fanfare of its brass bands and the spreading of its peacock plumes of finery.

  51. A brass band had come with the candidate's special train and blared out its stirring message.

  52. Pa struck on his head against a wagon wheel and his brass helmet was driven down over his face, so when he yelled to be pulled out of the helmet his voice sounded like a coon song, coming from a phonograph.

  53. Pa's old friends in Scranton gave him a banquet that night, but pa couldn't eat anything, cause the rim of the brass helmet cut a gash in his Adam's apple.

  54. A many of our bodies shall no doubt Find native graves; upon the which, I trust, Shall witness live in brass of this day's work.


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

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brass band; brass cannon; brass plate; brass tube; brass vessel; brass wire