BRANDY in a Sentence

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This morning he was--well, he was pretty well laced with brandy or he'd never have had the strength to go through with it all so well.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRANDY
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brandy
 n.  distilled from wine or fermented fruit juice
Classic Sentence: (78 in 6 pages)
1  Gerald, primed with brandy, had given Jonas Wilkerson his dismissal that morning, and Ellen had remained at Tara to go over the accounts of the plantation before he took his departure.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Gerald rode beside the carriage on his big hunter, warm with brandy and pleased with himself for having gotten through with the unpleasant business of Wilkerson so speedily.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
3  To Scarlett, this house cried out for the masculine smells of brandy, tobacco and Macassar oil, for hoarse voices and occasional curses, for guns, for whiskers, for saddles and bridles and for hounds underfoot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  The nice young captain was trying to pour a glass of brandy into her mouth and had spilled it down her neck.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
5  For a long time she lay back with her eyes closed, hearing his heavy breathing near her, and the glow of the brandy crept gradually over her, giving a false strength and warmth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  The brandy glow faded as she trudged along.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
7  Mammy's smile at the front door was the smile reserved for quality folks, Pitty served him coffee laced with brandy and fluttered about him and Scarlett hung on his every utterance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
8  During these months Scarlett had learned the use of brandy.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
9  Scarlett had found that a drink of neat brandy before supper helped immeasurably and she would always chew coffee or gargle cologne to disguise the smell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
10  But there were some nights when even brandy would not still the ache in her heart, the ache that was even stronger than fear of losing the mills, the ache to see Tara again.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  I don't know where she got the notion but some time in the afternoon she got a bottle of brandy and took Mr. O'Hara back to the office and begun pourin it for him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
12  This morning he was--well, he was pretty well laced with brandy or he'd never have had the strength to go through with it all so well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
13  She produced Aunt Pitty's "swoon bottle" of brandy which she had hidden there and held it up to the lamp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
14  The brandy burned with fiery pleasantness.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
15  In fact, brandy was good almost any time, so much better than insipid wine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
Example Sentence:
1  He's stocking up with wine and brandy for the party tonight.
2  The alcoholic strength of brandy far exceeds that of wine.