brush with
Example Sentences
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This wasn’t Smith’s first brush with fire, however.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
Their father doesn’t dismiss their brush with the forest’s spirits as juvenile fantasy, either.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
She had her first brush with show business in 1944, while working in a factory, when a photographer arrived to capture photos of women working on production lines during World War II.
From Barron's ● Jun. 1, 2026
The Greek Desk’s closest brush with D-Day was the extraction of Cornelia Kapp from Ankara, Turkey, in 1944.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 31, 2026
An audience with the Mona Lisa is a brush with fame itself.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
