Elastic straps that hold trousers up (usually used in the plural)
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Examples for "brace "
Examples for "brace "
1 Severe storm damage in Buller as locals brace for ongoing power cuts.
2 With Trump, businesses should brace themselves for further battles ahead, King said.
3 John Mayer should brace himself for Jessica Simpson's forthcoming memoir, Open Book.
4 Lerato Lamola scored a brace , having helped Arrows take the early lead.
5 All told, short-term investors should brace for a rocky summer, Gundlach said.
1 Even if every other suspender rope deteriorated, the bridge wouldn't fall down.
2 The suspender wheezed and tugged like the tackle of a sail.
3 The checkered pattern of that suspender recurred incessantly to his mind.
4 We wore stockings with suspender belts and indoor and outdoor shoes.
5 Cotton stuffing, suspender - button eyes, red velvet tongue, pearl beads for teeth.
Common domestic birds and related forms.
Eunuch priest of the Phrygian goddess Cybele.
1 During Gallus 's third year as Caesar, there was a famine in Syria.
2 For two years the Emperor had been receiving disquieting reports about Gallus .
3 In the autumn of 353, Gallus made a state visit to Pergamon.
4 When he was gone, Gallus deliberately smashed the cup he had used.
5 I blame Gallus 's wife Constantia for the overt change in his character.
6 Curiously enough, Julian almost never mentioned Gallus to me, or to anyone.
7 After Gallus left, I wept, for the last time as a child.
8 By the time Gallus realized he was surrounded, it was too late.
9 On a stool at Constantius's feet sat Gallus , looking well-pleased with himself.
10 Before I could reply, Gallus had turned to the bishop of Pergamon.
11 I don't recall where Gallus was; probably sick in bed with fever.
12 Then Gallus began to kick the dead man, laughing and shouting gleefully.
13 The two sexes in the parent-form, the Gallus bankiva, differ much in colour.
14 That day Gallus lost what small support he had among us.
15 But Gallus , who saw Eusebius every day, said that the eunuch was optimistic.
16 This is the Gallus in honour of whom Virgil composed his tenth eclogue.
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