Example Sentences

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National moments of racial strife have bracketed Biden’s 50-year political career.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2020

We have bracketed three players on the bench because Ryan has a tight calf and has not trained today while Jonathan Thomas has a haematoma on his leg.

From The Guardian • Mar. 8, 2011

I have bracketed them, and there will be two prizes.

From Born in Exile by Gissing, George

I have bracketed obvious scribal glosses which have crept into the text.

From The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic by Faraday, L. Winifred

It is not that the phrase nowhere occurs in a Roman historian; but no statesman, no Roman historian, not Sulla, not Caesar, nor Marcus, could ever have bracketed these words.

From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)