brace

Example Sentences

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The kind of bite where your lips pull back, your teeth barely touch the thing, and you brace for impact.

From Salon • Mar. 17, 2026

Having finally secured a flight back to London via Cairo and Rome, Patten then had to brace himself for take-off.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

Markets’ reaction: Oil prices are surging and U.S. stock futures point to sizable losses on Wall Street as investors brace for the economic fallout of an extended war.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026

Markets should brace for more than June’s brief military campaign.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 28, 2026

I brace myself against the entry and see my mom with her head buried in her arms, weeping at the table.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen