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Example sentences for "brimming"

Lexicographically close words:
brilliants; brim; brimful; brimless; brimmed; brims; brimstone; brindle; brindled; brine
  1. Then she started back to camp, laden with the brimming milk pail and a basket which the farmer's wife had let her have.

  2. Fine things to grow beans on, Professor," declared Dave, coming up with a brimming bucket of water from the spring.

  3. At least, Tubby could find nothing else and finally brought the brimming bucket and the line he had found on the drying green behind the farmhouse.

  4. What a day, brimming over with rich eye-feasts, with pomp and splendour!

  5. The now brimming Mahmoudieh saw me haunting it again; the predominating red of the flowering trees and creepers that I noted before had made place for enchanting variations of yellow, and all the vegetation had deepened.

  6. The wondering lassie sat up, her beautiful violet eyes brimming with unshed tears.

  7. Bertha, her eyes brimming with laughter, had disappeared to return a second later with a tray of glasses and a huge blue crockery pitcher.

  8. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river; For men may come, and men may go, But I go on forever.

  9. I chatter, chatter as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come, and men may go, But I go on forever.

  10. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses; I linger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my cresses; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go But I go on forever.

  11. There were Sally Lunns and toast biliously brimming in butter.

  12. Julia turned to her quickly and put her arms round the old lady's neck, the tears in her eyes brimming over.

  13. It was all so easy, so brimming with confidence.

  14. The eye took in a cement floor that supported three enormous caldrons, each one big enough for three men to hide in and brimming with a white-looking mixture.

  15. Yet it was not without strength, and when it was swollen with the freshets of the spring and brimming with the bounty of its sister streams, it could dash and roar, boom and crash, with the best of them.

  16. I murmur under moon and stars In brambly wildernesses; I linger by my shingly bars; I loiter round my cresses; And out again I curve and flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

  17. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.

  18. His reason for making this book lay in a convivial desire to share with as many as possible the contents of a newly acquired brimming cup.

  19. If the latter can be led to develop a fondness for that brimming cup which is theirs for the asking, a long step will be taken toward the possibility of overflowing life for all.

  20. They may steam into the country's principal port, past the great statue of the goddess Joy who holds aloft a brimming cup in the act of pledging the world.

  21. And here's to the hour when we may catch the eye of humanity and pledge all brother men in the brimming cup.

  22. In a word, the fathers meant to offer us all a good long draft of the brimming cup with the full sum of benefits implied by that privilege.

  23. Men are wishing more and more to share with each brother man the brimming cup of life.

  24. It is noteworthy that many of the Europeans who have recently written their impressions of the United States imagine that Colonel Roosevelt's brimming cup of vitality is shared by nearly the whole nation.

  25. It is for the use of all those whose cup of vitality is not brimming over.

  26. For the brimming cup has this at least in common with the cup that inebriates: its possessor is usually filled with a generous--if sometimes maudlin--anxiety to have others enjoy his own form of beverage.

  27. Now she was brimming with an unsuspected vitality.

  28. The note might have been spared; to a man the hospitallers were all brimming with innocent talk, and, in my experience of the monastery, it was easier to begin than to break off a conversation.

  29. Here ended the adolescence of the Oise; this was his marriage-day; thenceforward he had a stately, brimming march, conscious of his own dignity and sundry dams.

  30. They let them feed in lonely pastures, and by the bank of brimming rivers, where moss abounds and the grass is greenest, and where caves give shelter, and the shadow of some rock is cast far in front.

  31. He was not going to have Aura spend her days in saintliness and martyrdom, growing more and more dignified and gracious, more and more motherly in the look of brimming affection she never failed to give to him--to him her lover!

  32. She looked up at him, her beautiful eyes, twin stars of mysterious double life, brimming with swift tears.

  33. He has no bearing upon aviation, or National Insurance Bills (that is our subject next Monday night); but he is brimming over with ethics, and it is the duty of your precious Ethical Society to grapple with him exhaustively.

  34. She wound up with the English word, and tied the mouth of the brimming bag.

  35. Her brown eyes were now brimming over with tears where she stood surrounded by all the treasures of spring.

  36. When the heart of a man is sincere and tranquil, he is fain to enjoy nothing but himself; every movement, even corporeal movement, shakes the brimming nectar cup too rudely.

  37. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.

  38. Rossetti characterizes this poem as "a pure outpouring of poetry; a brimming and bubbling fountain of freshness and music, magical with its own spray rainbows.

  39. Till last by Philip's farm I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.

  40. She was in a glow of delight; and when Clarice asked her to walk down the street with her, the cup of happiness seemed brimming over.

  41. Katy, the maid of all work, was crossing the floor with a brimming pan of milk.

  42. Leaning against the rail, the Baroness looked down upon us with a sad smile, her innocent eyes brimming over with tears.

  43. The boy looked up into the Parson's blue and brimming eyes.

  44. Nelson turned suddenly to find the boy's eyes brimming with laughter.

  45. The boy choked a laugh brimming on the edge of being.

  46. Pour it into the golden goblet; it will contain the whole without brimming over.

  47. From the hands of fair women take the drinking-horn, pleasantly brimming with wine and mead.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brimming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    aware; big; brimming; bulging; bursting; capacity; congested; crammed; crowded; filled; flush; full; jammed; loaded; overfull; overstuffed; packed; plenary; replete; round; satiated; saturated; soaked; stuffed; surfeited; swollen; thick; trifling