brush up

Example Sentences

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Modern audiences brush up against directors trying to make 21st-century opera fresh.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

Biathlon fans brush up your Italian -- but also your German, for the events this Winter Olympics will be in South Tyrol in Italy, an autonomous province bordering Austria and Switzerland.

From Barron's • Feb. 2, 2026

“People want to brush up against one another a bit more now,” said Café Kestral owner Dennis Spina to Eater.

From Salon • Oct. 18, 2025

There’s not a lot of lawyers practicing law, as you and I think of it, who actually ever brush up against the prerogative state.

From Slate • May 27, 2025

“Rowdy,” I whispered, “something is messing around with the brush up there. You don’t suppose it could be that smart monkey?”

From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls