BRAZEN in a Sentence

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25 example sentences for BRAZEN, such as:

1. The bugles called to each other like brazen gamecocks.
2. The brazen woman laughed loudly at the judge who sentenced her.
3. His entire premiership has become an exercise in brazen dishonesty.
4. The spring of the plains is not a reluctant virgin but brazen and soon away.
5. Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little brazen cylinder.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRAZEN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brazen
 a.  having loud, usually harsh, resonant sound; shameless
Classic Sentence: (21 in 2 pages)
1  In the centre were visible the brazen war-fleets of Actium; thou mightest see all Leucate swarm in embattled array, and the waves gleam with gold.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK EIGHTH
2  They spread themselves about and keep alternate watch, and, lying along the grass, drink deep and set brazen bowls atilt.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
3  Turnus, himself fully armed, awakes his men to arms, and each leader marshals to battle his brazen lines and whets their ardour with varying rumours.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
4  So many were the chosen princes who went in thirty ships to aid Troy, and cut the salt plains with brazen prow.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
5  Hard by his brazen helmet hangs from the boughs, and the heavy armour lies quietly on the meadow.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
6  Thrice he rode wheeling close round him by the left, and sent his weapons strongly in; thrice the Trojan hero turns round, taking the grim forest on his brazen guard.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
7  And they, in the empty level field that cleared for them, darted swiftly forward, and hurling their spears from far, close in battle shock with clangour of brazen shields.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
8  Bogart, a boy of fourteen who was still at home, the most brazen member of the toughest gang in Boytown.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
9  The spring of the plains is not a reluctant virgin but brazen and soon away.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
10  The bugles called to each other like brazen gamecocks.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
11  It was another red brick house, with black outside shutters, green inside blinds, a black street-door up two white steps, a brazen door-plate, and a brazen door-handle full stop.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
12  Holmes rushed to the top of the stairs to draw in the fresh air, and then, dashing into the room, he threw up the window and hurled the brazen tripod out into the garden.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In X. The Adventure of The Greek Interpreter
13  Then, with a cry of satisfaction, he bent forward and picked up a little brazen cylinder.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. THE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MEN
14  I had never been struck at so keenly, for my thanklessness to Joe, as through the brazen impostor Pumblechook.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LII
15  But, it was only the pleasanter to turn to Biddy and to Joe, whose great forbearance shone more brightly than before, if that could be, contrasted with this brazen pretender.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LVIII
Example Sentence:
1  His entire premiership has become an exercise in brazen dishonesty.
2  Others fear that security is to spiral downward in a long-term because more brazen traffickers will fight for control.
3  If you are caught simply argue that "everyone does it" and brazen it out.
4  The brazen woman laughed loudly at the judge who sentenced her.