brolly

Example Sentences

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"Then I bought a brolly from Amazon which said it was waterproof and was lace and was really small and I just thought yeah that's the cherry on top."

From BBC • Oct. 9, 2023

Bigger, longer and — at an interminable 141 minutes — apparently uncut, “Circle” is an emotionally sterile lark, its wounds inflicted with brolly and bullwhip, a smirk and a shrug.

From New York Times • Sep. 20, 2017

With the movement having taken on the sobriquet of the Umbrella Revolution, the raincoat-clad Paddington Bear is showing up on protest-zone posters too, brolly in hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2014

Also, don’t expect Americans to take you seriously if you refer to your umbrella as a brolly, and don’t attempt to call it a bumbershoot unless you can lend the term a Benedict Cumberbatch lilt.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2014

“Rummy! Don’t be soft. Poker. We’ll play for ciggies. For gosh sakes, put that brolly down, Brodatt, are you completely bonkers?”

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein