On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Brushed. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as touched or groomed and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Brushed meaning
- Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish.
- Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.
Using Brushed
- The main meaning on this page is: Roughened by rubbing with an abrasive brushes, especially as a finish. | Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush. | Having been cleaned, tidied, or straightened with a brush.
- Useful related words include: touched, groomed, fleecy, napped.
- In the example corpus, brushed often appears in combinations such as: brushed off, brushed aside, has brushed.
Context around Brushed
- Average sentence length in these examples: 20.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 5 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Brushed
- In this selection, "brushed" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 20.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, daughter, team, seemingly, off, hearts and apart stand out and add context to how "brushed" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include again but brushed off the and all is brushed off. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "brushed" sits close to words such as adjoining, beg and cavity, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with brushed
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Have you brushed up on your Mandarin today? (8 words)
He brushed apart any clichés or bulletin board statements. (9 words)
Ms Clinton for her part brushed off the remarks. (9 words)
He brushed off the controversy over the events in his apartment as “an obvious attack on the church, including the clergy and believers” and said that the uproar would not have happened if “something similar had happened” to a person outside the clergy. (43 words)
During the free skate, he then fell attempting to land the quadruple axel again, but brushed off the error to register a career-best score of 207.76 and win the title. (32 words)
It has a brushed aluminum and glass chassis and a super-slim (0.2-inch) design, with a 16:10 aspect ratio display and two USB Type-C ports. (29 words)
Have you brushed up on your Mandarin today? (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
A question about whether the dismissal has left him bruised at all is brushed off.
But, her daughter brushed off her concerns telling her: “Ma, I’ll be okay”.
Celtic midfielder Matt O'Riley was in fine form once more as his team brushed Hearts aside at Tynecastle.
During the free skate, he then fell attempting to land the quadruple axel again, but brushed off the error to register a career-best score of 207.76 and win the title.
Have you brushed up on your Mandarin today?
He brushed apart any clichés or bulletin board statements.
He brushed off the controversy over the events in his apartment as “an obvious attack on the church, including the clergy and believers” and said that the uproar would not have happened if “something similar had happened” to a person outside the clergy.
However, the couple seemingly brushed off the speculation regarding their marriage as they enjoyed some time off parenting duties to watch the game.
If you’re looking for a set of brushed cotton sheets, our favorite sheet set is from Parachute.
In a BBC interview afterwards he said that as a child the abuse was "hard to take" but he brushed it off as being "just normal".
Instead, it entirely brushed over the Brazil incident… and dedicated a significant amount of time to positing Perez as a family man.
In the coming episodes, Gabby (Rosie Bentham) becomes frustrated when her advances towards Nicky (Lewis Cope) keep getting brushed off.
It has a brushed aluminum and glass chassis and a super-slim (0.2-inch) design, with a 16:10 aspect ratio display and two USB Type-C ports.
James brushed aside Trump's attacks ahead of his testimony.
Joe Mazzulla brushed off his latest achievement, but Marcus Smart sees right through his head coach.
Lamination is an alternative procedure that uses a protein solution like keratin to re-shape your eyebrow hairs and lift them into a ‘brushed up’ effect.
Maybe you finally mustered up the courage to tell someone how you felt and they brushed you off, or told you that you were wrong.
McCarthy has brushed off the possibility of his ouster, with his leadership team insisting he got the best deal possible under a divided government.
Ms Clinton for her part brushed off the remarks.
Ms McDaniel also brushed off Mr Trump’s continued scepticism of early voting, even after he recorded a video to promote the Bank Your Vote initiative.
Common combinations with brushed
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- brushed off 62×
- brushed aside 20×
- has brushed 15×
- he brushed 14×
- and brushed 14×
- brushed it 11×
- she brushed 11×
- just brushed 6×
- brushed up 5×
- brushed back 5×