brolly

Example Sentences

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It has been affectionately named "space brolly" for its giant 12m diameter antenna which expands outwards.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2025

Bigger, longer and — at an interminable 141 minutes — apparently uncut, “Circle” is an emotionally sterile lark, its wounds inflicted with brolly and bullwhip, a smirk and a shrug.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2017

With the movement having taken on the sobriquet of the Umbrella Revolution, the raincoat-clad Paddington Bear is showing up on protest-zone posters too, brolly in hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2014

Also, don’t expect Americans to take you seriously if you refer to your umbrella as a brolly, and don’t attempt to call it a bumbershoot unless you can lend the term a Benedict Cumberbatch lilt.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2014

Hellfire raining down on her out of the sky and she held it off with a brolly.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein