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

At one burn, Hanson proposed that we make a side trip and wade through the brush up on a steep canyon wall where, he assured me, we would find even more saplings just breaking through.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 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

“You might want to brush up on your jousting skills,” I said.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline