Example Sentences

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All that was left were the pair of towers that had bracketed the stage, anchoring giant gears and gimbals.

From New York Times • May 17, 2013

She put in one busy day silencing shore batteries which had bracketed U.S. transports unloading at Guadalcanal.

From Time Magazine Archive

Job had bracketed his target, but the mist-clouds that were sweeping past rendered his task a difficult one.

From The Black Buccaneer by Meader, Stephen W. (Stephen Warren)

Miss Fanshawe could hardly escape scot-free from her associations, nor was it to her advantage that rumour had bracketed her name with that of a successful but not popular man of fashion.

From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Griffiths, Arthur

If Mr. Baring had bracketed Tourgeniev with Charlotte Brontë and Dostoievsky with the lonely Emily, I should have credited him with a subtle originality.

From Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911 by Bennett, Arnold