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

Schoenfeld recommended that those who live in high fire risk areas brush up on evacuation plans and make sure they have a go-bag with essential items as wildfire season approaches.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 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

It was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer