Example Sentences

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In it, you, the humble brusher, become a buccaneer who collects gold coins by brushing in a given quadrant for an appropriate length of time.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2018

“For me it’s tough to see doping in curling. Maybe as a brusher, but come on, hit the gym you know,” Norwegian skip and Olympic 2010 silver medalist Thomas Ulsrud told Reuters.

From Reuters • Feb. 18, 2018

The games themselves now last a little less than two minutes and appear to keep an avid brusher from playing more than three times a day.

From Washington Times • Jan. 7, 2016

Proving to insurance companies that you are a fastidious brusher can lower premiums, Frommeyer said.

From Forbes • Apr. 4, 2013

"Why, you don't ever mean—to tell me—that's you, old brusher?"

From My Lord Duke by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)