How to Use brace in a Sentence

brace

1 of 2 verb

• He braced the gate with a piece of wood.
• She braced herself with one hand and reached up with the other.
• Steel columns brace the structure.
• But does the United States need to brace itself for a surge?
  — Theresa Tamkins, NBC News, 3 Aug. 2023
• The stats are startling to Chen, who is bracing for a swell of need there.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 25 Oct. 2023
• Pull your shoulders back and down to brace your core and keep your chest proud.
  — Tiffany Ayuda, Health, 22 Aug. 2023
• Hinging at the hips, with a slight knee bend, brace your core, push through the glutes, and pull the handles down.
  — Rozalynn S. Frazier, Health, 18 Oct. 2023
• With Auburn aligned, the SEC should probably brace for a flood.
  — Joseph Goodman | [e-mail], al, 2 Aug. 2023
• The muscles that once tightened and braced to move heavy things went slack.
  — Alyssa Ages, SELF, 13 Sep. 2023
• Curl toes and brace your deep core to lift knees to hover off ground just an inch or so.
  — Alyssa Sparacino, Men's Health, 31 Aug. 2023
• And for those of you who, like me, live on the East Coast and are bracing themselves for Idalia, stay safe out there!
  — Jade Chung-Lee, PCMAG, 30 Aug. 2023
• Many of their members are bracing for a painful few weeks ahead.
  — Jon Moss, New York Times, 16 June 2023
• The cruise line's Caribbean Princess ship will dock in Boston on Friday to brace for the storm.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 15 Sep. 2023
• Meanwhile, skiers heading up to Tahoe on I-80 over the holiday should brace for a whole lot of snow.
  — Scooty Nickerson, The Mercury News, 17 Feb. 2024
• Snow hurled sideways at us, my driver’s tie flapping in the squall, his bare forearms braced against the cold.
  — Hazlitt, 12 July 2023
• Many on Wall Street were bracing themselves for a hard landing at the start of the year, a downside which never came to fruition.
  — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
• Some on Wall Street are even braced for Tesla’s first sales decline since the early days of the pandemic.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2024
• Some of the city’s elderly residents even knelt to brace themselves for a wall of water to hit them.
  — Paradise Afshar, CNN, 1 Sep. 2023
• And so the country must brace itself for what will surely be described as the Trial of the Century.
  — Peter Baker, New York Times, 15 Aug. 2023
• The Gray Man star was also bracing for some good-natured ribbing from his close friends.
  — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• Despite the full tanks, traders have been bracing for potential supply shocks over the past week.
  — Michelle Toh, CNN, 29 Aug. 2023
• As Gair steered the wildly pitching boat, Rink inched out to the bow, clinging to handrails and bracing himself against the cabin every step of the way.
  — Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2023
• Some — in Egypt and Lebanon — are bracing for spillover from the war at a time of serious economic turmoil.
  — Hannah Allam, Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2023
• Hold that position for two to three seconds, bracing your core and glutes to stay stable.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 18 May 2023
• The shoe’s upper is higher than the first model, bracing your foot (there is also the chargefeel Mid for sock-like support around the foot).
  — Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 11 Aug. 2023
• Cancer screening is about staying informed and knowing what to do next, not bracing for the worst.
  — Robin Cole, Fortune, 12 Apr. 2024
• On one white-sand beach, the waves of the Persian Gulf lapped at the shore as grinning clients braced themselves before plunging into tubs of ice water.
  — Júlia Ledur, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2023
• Exhale to brace your core, engage your pelvic floor muscles, and lift your left foot off the ground with your knee bent at 90 degrees and your shin parallel to the ground.
  — Tiffany Ayuda, Health, 12 July 2023
• The characters keep bracing for a storm, yet Mann’s production stays placid.
  — Vulture, 17 Dec. 2023
• This March, a year after the cholera outbreak began and as cases were beginning to go down, Malawi and its neighbors braced for a new storm.
  — WIRED, 16 Sep. 2023

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brace

2 of 2 noun

• We need to add some sort of brace to hold the shelf in place.
• She wears a back brace.
• He could walk with braces on his legs.
• Once the concrete sets, screw the top of the brace to the post.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• This allows a snug fit to the hand truck’s curving back brace.
  — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 6 Feb. 2023
• The foamy edges of the waves lapped around his lower body, soaking his leg brace.
  — Reginald Dwayne Betts, New York Times, 14 Dec. 2022
• The braces are long gone and André, who is now 15, is taller than her by an inch or so.
  — Barry Hatton and Helena Alves, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Sep. 2023
• With about 20 feet left, her parents came up to her with her leg braces.
  — Brenton Blanchet, Peoplemag, 25 Oct. 2023
• The look was completed by a plaid shirt, brown pants, braces, leather boots and a beanie hat.
  — Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• Postgame, Smith was shown on the broadcast with her right knee wrapped and secured in a large brace.
  — oregonlive, 27 Aug. 2023
• As such, Laniakea is free of bulky beams and braces that hog space and spoil views.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 18 Dec. 2023
• The at-home braces or teeth whitening kit that snags this song for their ads is going to clean up.
  — Vulture, 15 Sep. 2023
• The fan favorite, up and down the bay, is Mr. Reiss’s daughter, Peyton Reiss, who is 9 and sports turquoise braces.
  — Jason Nark Kent Nishimura, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• The braces had pins that were drilled into her leg bones and had to be tightened daily.
  — Eileen Finan, Peoplemag, 10 Dec. 2023
• The next three photos show his swollen knuckle and a brace holding the ring finger in place.
  — Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 27 Feb. 2023
• Fox, who recently broke her wrist per Page Six, ditched the brace for the red carpet.
  — Carrie Wittmer, Glamour, 6 Feb. 2023
• The West has been blanketed in snow as many regions on the East Coast brace for the first flurries of the season.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 Dec. 2022
• The look also includes the character’s neck and back brace that wraps around her waist and head.
  — Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 9 Jan. 2024
• Only white kids, and Black kids from two-parent homes, had braces.
  — Jenisha Watts, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2023
• Sheets still has to wear a brace on her knee to keep it stable but now the injury is the furthest thing from her mind.
  — Josh Reed, Anchorage Daily News, 12 Dec. 2022
• Rodgers was wearing sunglasses and his left foot was in a brace.
  — Ryan Gaydos, Fox News, 2 Oct. 2023
• Still later, a neck brace, some blankets and a child-size stretcher.
  — Safak Timur, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• And a country blighted by wanton disorder over the past decade braces for more of the same.
  — Time, 26 July 2023
• What was really needed was a brace that didn’t act like a brace.
  — Tim Newcomb, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2024
• The decision is the latest in a chain of moves as San Diego braces for torrential rain and high winds.
  — Ryan Finley, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Aug. 2023
• Brandon Vazquez's eight-minute brace is still the difference.
  — The Enquirer, 28 July 2023
• Fox, a prepubescent girl with braces who hadn’t had her first kiss, ended up in Nash’s bedroom.
  — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023
• In the first photo of the congressman since his fall, Steube lies in a neck brace with his two pups on the couch of his Florida home.
  — Sophia Slacik, Fox News, 23 Jan. 2023
• Even a few days after the injury, Drew saw Tchamwa Tchatchoua sitting in a chair with his outstretched leg in a brace.
  — Dallas News, 7 Feb. 2023
• With beverages, brace for sticker shock on at least a few Super Bowl must-haves for the grownups - beer.
  — Parija Kavilanz, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024