brain up
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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In Doctor Who almost every week there was a new monster to scare you as a child and it just fired my creative brain up.
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2022
I applied them to my technique and they actually opened my brain up to Leonard Bernstein, Mancini, and all these guys.
From Slate • Nov. 17, 2020
Hooking a brain up directly to electronics is not new.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 28, 2020
“I’m waking my brain up a little bit when I’m doing that,” Burakovsky said.
From Washington Post • Oct. 29, 2018
And the check—it was a clutch at the heart that brought her brain up staggering—came entirely from the outside, from the uttermost rim of her circle, from Mabel Brodrick.
From The Creators A Comedy by Sinclair, May
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