Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

The McLaughlin Group is great fun, but brawly -- alive with spitballs, hoots of derision, melodramatic postures, overshouts.

From Time Magazine Archive

After the brawly bouncing around that occurred last week in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium, the rule still stood.

From Time Magazine Archive

They happit aboot her like craws on a rig, A' fechtin', or fleechin', or crackin' fell big; 'Gae 'wa', sirs, to Freuchie, for brawly it's seen It's siller yer wooin',' quo Tipperty's Jean.

From Legends of the North; The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride by Buchan, Patrick

Weel, for the first ten months or sae, the boat did brawly.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various

Naebody wi' ony logic wud need twa looks to see brawly that onything's bigger than a bit o't, or, as the book says, that the whole's greater than its pairt.

From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.