Example Sentences

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Nevertheless there Yara is, braving the elements, environmental and social, to host a weekend party for 75 of her parents’ nearest and dearest in celebration of their 20 years of marriage.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 19, 2022

Meta is braving what its chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, endearingly labeled “headwinds” during a conference call with investment analysts Wednesday.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2022

Trading roles Weaving in between the fruit-and-veg stalls of Surrey Street market, a grey-haired figure with a megaphone is braving the winter cold dressed in a T-shirt with a bright pink logo.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2010

And by diving deeper into the manufacturing of more of its products, Wal-Mart is braving a path that has brought grief to some of history's biggest retailers, such as A&P and Sears.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Damerel stood like a statue of British respectability, deaf and blind to everything that conflicts with good-breeding; stony-faced, she had set her lips in the smile appropriate to one who is braving torture.

From In the Year of Jubilee by Gissing, George