Brains is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Brains in a sentence
Related words
Brains meaning
plural of brain
Using Brains
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of brain
- In the example corpus, brains often appears in combinations such as: the brains, our brains, brains of.
Context around Brains
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 15 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Brains
- In this selection, "brains" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 30.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, larger, smallest, resilient, sizes, harbored and functioned stand out and add context to how "brains" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as parents brains are wired and blowing his brains out the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "brains" sits close to words such as barrels, constitute and hardy, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with brains
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The structures assumed to be critical for consciousness in mammalian brains have homologous counterparts in avian brains. (17 words)
All three of you should know - if you had any brains - drugs are a complete waste of time. (18 words)
Research in this area includes research into the structure and function of normally functioning brains, and of damaged or otherwise unusual brains. (22 words)
It may be a little bit too on the nose, but the metaphor is clear that we never know what’s going on inside other people’s brains, and here’s a guy who cuts into people’s brains and takes out tumors and helps them. (46 words)
At the same time, they soaked the brains of the healthy animals with a substance that inhibits production of irisin and then pumped in a form of beta amyloid, a protein that clumps together to form plaques in the brains of those with Alzheimer's. (45 words)
In his Morton declared that not only did white people have larger brains and thus were intellectually superior to all other races, but also that black people had the smallest brains sizes and were hence inferior to all others. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
It may be a little bit too on the nose, but the metaphor is clear that we never know what’s going on inside other people’s brains, and here’s a guy who cuts into people’s brains and takes out tumors and helps them.
In his Morton declared that not only did white people have larger brains and thus were intellectually superior to all other races, but also that black people had the smallest brains sizes and were hence inferior to all others.
A few years ago Massachusetts General researchers found strikingly little inflammation surrounded all the gunky buildup in the resilient brains — but the Alzheimer’s-affected brains harbored a lot.
At the same time, they soaked the brains of the healthy animals with a substance that inhibits production of irisin and then pumped in a form of beta amyloid, a protein that clumps together to form plaques in the brains of those with Alzheimer's.
Electrodes monitored the electrical currents in their brains while the MRI measured the blood oxygen levels in their brains and where and how much cerebrospinal fluid was flowing.
This is exciting, mainly because brains can vary by the individual, and comparing lots of brains could potentially teach us more about how these incredible feats of biology truly work.
Just as parents’ brains are wired to nurture their young, their children’s brains are likewise wired to respect and follow their parents.
Scientists would very much like to know how some of the most ancient brains functioned and evolved over time, but that’s obviously not possible, owing to the complete lack of primordial brains to work with.
Therefore these men, whose brains weren’t of course any better than the brains today, were so much less molested by self-deceptions, pieties, lore, and loyalties that they produced world-changing thought transcending everything else then existing.
They found that the same glycosphingolipids that are increased in the brains of Parkinson's disease patients are also elevated in the brains of aging mice.
What Berns does is compare the way animal brains function with human brains and then draws inferences about their inner life based on the similarities.
If I am a BIV, then, when I say "I am not a BIV", it is true (because "brain" and "vat" would only pick out the brains and vats being simulated, not real brains and real vats).
Mechanism Physiology Though neuroimaging studies have not yet found specific neural correlates, there is much evidence that the brains of adults who stutter differ from the brains of adults who do not stutter.
Perhaps the math that brains invent takes the form it does because math had a hand in forming the brains in the first place (through the operation of natural laws in constraining the evolution of life).
Research in this area includes research into the structure and function of normally functioning brains, and of damaged or otherwise unusual brains.
The structures assumed to be critical for consciousness in mammalian brains have homologous counterparts in avian brains.
According to pollution experts, lead poisoning may be linked to the damaged brains and other organs of generations of children who live in Kabwe.
After Ivan and Matija failed to silence “shit-for-brains” Josip before he was arrested, the bungling heavies were summoned to a meeting with “the chief”.
All three of you should know - if you had any brains - drugs are a complete waste of time.
A minute before almost blowing his brains out, the world seemed so that the only thing Greene could think of doing was killing himself.
Common combinations with brains
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the brains 42×
- our brains 36×
- brains of 28×
- their brains 28×
- brains and 27×
- brains are 14×
- brains to 12×
- brains behind 10×
- brains can 6×
- and brains 6×