brush with
Example Sentences
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When your first brush with adulthood involves endless consumption and no cost, it gives you the wrong idea of how the world works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
Ellsberg took out his camera to document his brush with death.
From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin
