brainpan

Example Sentences

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The Jewish children’s charity has burrowed into the national brainpan for more than 10 years and attracted government scrutiny for its charitable disbursements.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2023

“Ignorance” is gray and confined within a cage, “Shame” is purple with nails pounded into its squashed brainpan, and “The Subconscious” is covered in gold leaf and recessed into a blue rectangle.

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

Hearing parental advice from a nonparent source often penetrates the brainpan much more effectively.

From Slate • Dec. 6, 2018

Lately, all these gifts — the big brainpan, the quick tongue, the upper-class diction — have allowed him to make a reputation playing characters who are very bright but not quite normal.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2014

The thought washed over me like a river, sweeping away the dead bees that had filled my brainpan with confusion.

From "Chains" by Laurie Halse Anderson