Example Sentences

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You will have brushed past the same song when it appeared in “Jack Reacher” or last year’s “Aloha.”

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2016

There’s always a chance that, in some way, I will have brushed off on Justin.

From "Every Day" by David Levithan

Why, somewhat heartless; for, suppose Jules45 a coxcomb as much as you choose, still, for this mere coxcombry, you will have brushed off—what do folks style it?—the bloom of his life.

From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra