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

At one burn, Hanson proposed that we make a side trip and wade through the brush up on a steep canyon wall where, he assured me, we would find even more saplings just breaking through.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 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

Then she reminds me to brush up on more seerah, to be really ready, as there might be an audience for the competition.

From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali