: giving strength, vigor, or freshness
a bracing breeze
bracingly
adverb
Examples of bracing in a Sentence
a chilly but bracing day
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The film is trying quite hard to be a bracing and immersive depiction of rehabilitation’s hard toil.
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Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Set at the beginning of the Second World War, this bracing and erudite novel weaves together three ostensibly unrelated plots.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Still, if the goal of a certain kind of big-swing public-intellectual book is to afflict the comfortable, then this book is a bracing way to afflict yourself, for the low price of thirty-five dollars.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
Sometimes a bracing perspective emerges through formal play, as in a tight epic of a poem about an atrocity.
—The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
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Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
Set at the beginning of the Second World War, this bracing and erudite novel weaves together three ostensibly unrelated plots.
—The New Yorker, New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2025
Still, if the goal of a certain kind of big-swing public-intellectual book is to afflict the comfortable, then this book is a bracing way to afflict yourself, for the low price of thirty-five dollars.
—Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 14 Dec. 2024
Sometimes a bracing perspective emerges through formal play, as in a tight epic of a poem about an atrocity.
—The Atlantic, 4 Dec. 2024
See All Example Sentences for bracing
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“Bracing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bracing. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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