brush against

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Parts of the Front Range, the easternmost section of the Southern Rocky Mountains, saw winds as strong as 85 miles an hour blowing debris and kindling-dry brush against the power lines.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 25, 2025

And speaking of rats: Sometimes, reaching deep into a trash can in search of a bottle, a worker will brush against an unwelcome surprise.

From Slate • Nov. 27, 2024

And spines can become lodged in people’s skin if they so much as brush against a cholla.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2024

Fault lines are the visible boundaries on the planet's surface where the rigid plates that make up the Earth's lithosphere brush against each another.

From Science Daily • Jun. 5, 2024

As they thrust forward they felt things brush against their heads, or against their hands, long tentacles, or hanging growths perhaps: they could not tell what they were.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien