BRAIN in a Sentence

Learn BRAIN from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

347 example sentences for BRAIN, such as:

1. She died of a brain tumour.
2. She stopped and racked her brain.
3. He died of a massive brain haemorrhage.
4. The brain cells are inactive during sleep.
5. His brain was filled with vapors and dreams.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRAIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brain
 n.  organ or seat of intellect
 n.  understanding or imagination
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  As he strode along through the snow the sense of such meanings glowed in his brain and mingled with the bodily flush produced by his sharp tramp.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
2  But now, as he stood outside the church, and saw Mattie spinning down the floor with Denis Eady, a throng of disregarded hints and menaces wove their cloud about his brain.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In I
3  Ethan felt confusedly that there were many things he ought to think about, but through his tingling veins and tired brain only one sensation throbbed: the warmth of Mattie's shoulder against his.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  The blackness lifted and light flooded Ethan's brain.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
5  His body and brain ached with indescribable weariness, and he could think of nothing to say or to do that should arrest the mad flight of the moments.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In V
6  Then, suddenly, an idea, shining and new, flashed like a comet through her brain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  Through the mad tearing of ideas round and round in her brain, one was beginning to take form.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
8  Somewhere in her brain, a slow fire rose and rage began to blot out everything else.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  "He has a lot of money," she was thinking swiftly, as a thought and a plan went through her brain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
10  She was proud of Gerald and what he had accomplished unaided except by his shrewd Irish brain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
11  She stopped and racked her brain.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  All the fiends of hell seemed screaming in her ears and her brain swirled with confusion and panic so overpowering she clung to the window sill for support.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
13  Those were the words which had hummed in her brain that afternoon so monotonously they had sickened her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
14  She only knew she had left her tired body and floated somewhere above it where there was no pain and weariness and her brain saw things with an inhuman clarity.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  Tomorrow--tomorrow--her brain ticked slowly and more slowly, like a clock running down, but the clarity of vision persisted.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
Example Sentence: (137 in 10 pages)
16  We learnt about the structure of the brain today.
17  Today the principal tools for prospecting the brain are electrical.
18  Heavy drinking can cause permanent damage to the brain.
19  He died of a massive brain haemorrhage.
20  His brain was filled with vapors and dreams.
21  She suffers from a rare disease of the brain.
22  The teacher showed the students the pictures of brain tissues.
23  He drew an analogy between the brain and a vast computer.
24  She died of a brain tumour.
25  If you don't keep your brain working you go gaga.
26  The brain cells are inactive during sleep.
27  He sank into a coma after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
28  There is a small risk of brain damage from the procedure.
29  The changing size of an infant's head is considered an index of brain growth.
30  Doctors tried desperately to reduce the swelling in her brain.