brush up

Example Sentences

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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

This isn’t to say everyone needs to brush up on penmanship and stop using AI calendars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 26, 2025

Time to brush up on the recipes I had learned during COVID.

From Los Angeles Times • May 27, 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

My fingers brush up against the bottle of bloodroot in my pocket.

From "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir