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Meanings of brush in English
Sliding electrical contact which conducts current between stationary and moving parts.
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Examples for "thicket"
Examples for "thicket"
1
No; he could not see me; I was right in the thicket.
2
The buck ran into the thicket; but the doe eyed him curiously.
3
Back in the thicket he heard the prowling of some small animal.
4
Scholes had to fight his way through a thicket of selectorial challenges.
5
S: The dwellers of the thicket gave the lie to the messengers.
1
At the faintest sound of movement in the brushwood, the jingle ceases.
2
A great fire of brushwood and pine-apples was blazing in the dining-room.
3
A stealthy brown figure glided away in silence through the tangled brushwood.
4
We were thus engaged when we heard a rustling in the brushwood.
5
Between these rows of brushwood runs the path frequented by the deer.
1
A few moments later the two friends had disappeared in the copse.
2
Darker, darker grew the copse and the chill of the night descended.
3
We will lose no time in searching the copse you speak of.
4
The soldiers will scatter about, and penetrate every part of the copse.
5
But one season previously the copse seemed to belong to the missel-thrushes.
1
Turkeys run into the coppice, and pheasants whirr up from the path.
2
Our tent was on the border of a coppice of young trees.
3
They came to a larger space where the coppice had been cut.
4
Round a small pool of water a coppice of branches was interlaced.
5
Arrived there we went by a narrow pathway driven through a coppice.
Spanish
pincelada Usage of brush in English
1
The roller work was almost done; next came the nit-picky brush work.
2
The religious freedom law was not Pence's only brush with national controversy.
3
However, we perhaps had our own brush with a national tragedy, here.
4
So far, it has made its case with only a broad brush.
5
I also used a striping brush to create the heart and lines.
6
At least that answered the question of why Ricardo needed the brush.
7
Death in the brush, death in the tree-top, death from the river-bank.
8
For both candidates, Gustav could present a dangerous brush with hurricane politics.
9
The mother fled into the brush; the cubs took to a tree.
10
This is certainly not the ex-MP's first brush with the law, either.
11
Got gulch area and lots of brush not far from that road.
12
However, there are a few things he'll need to brush up on.
13
The crackling in the brush indicated that the men were very near.
14
Stir in remaining 1 tablespoon cider and paprika; brush mixture on hens.
15
It's a good challenge, though the ball does brush off his hand.
16
The officers in search accidentally came upon them in this brush patch.
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Russian
Catalan
Brush through the time
Brush across language varieties
United States of America
Common
South Africa
Common
Australia
Common
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