bruit
verb (used with object)
to voice abroad; rumor (used chiefly in the passive and often followed byabout ).
bruits
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present tense formof bruit (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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She bruits the notion of “an emergency semicolon.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 14, 2015
If any man shall revive a quarrel by any scandalous bruits or writings, contrary to former proclamation published by his Majesty in that behalf.
From The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) by Various
Meanwhile there were bruits of great doings in the north of Lincolnshire.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
Throkmorton, writing to the privy council that this king was looked for shortly at Orleans, adds that all bruits of trouble by him were clean appeased, which caused great marvel.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird
"De tous les bruits du monde celui de la musique est le plus desagreable!" was my ever-recurring thought.
From From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky
