brush against
Example Sentences
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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 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
"I squeezed through, sucking in my stomach, trying not to tread on anyone's toes or brush against anything."
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2023
They avoided all contact with me, and even stepped out of my way so I would not brush against them in the halls.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
