How to Use bracket in a Sentence

bracket

1 of 2 noun

• There are wall brackets in the garage for the rakes and shovels.
• The shelf is held up with two brackets.
• He earned enough to put him in a higher tax bracket.
• She is taller than average for her age bracket.
• She is now in a lower income bracket than before.
• What are the tax brackets this year?
  — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Jan. 2026
• This bracket can make or break a movie.
  — Pamela McClintock, HollywoodReporter, 27 May 2026
• Did your tax bracket change this year?
  — John Tufts, Indianapolis Star, 26 Jan. 2026
• That’s the thing the bracket can’t hold.
  — Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• Best-of-five or -seven brackets are the norm.
  — Sheldon H. Jacobson, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
• The bracket will be set in the next 48 hours.
  — Dianna Russini, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2026
• So just how long can a perfect bracket last?
  — Ryan Brennan, Kansas City Star, 20 Mar. 2026
• The top of the bracket has star power, too.
  — Jenny Catlin, New York Times, 29 May 2026
• As in dropping out of the play-in bracket.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2026
• Scorsese’s two for two so far in our bracket.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
• And just like that, there goes your perfect bracket.
  — David Van Den Heever, The Conversation, 26 Mar. 2026
• Win a game or two and turn the bracket upside-down, for one.
  — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 5 Mar. 2026
• The eight teams with the best record will join the knockout bracket.
  — Ben Church, CNN Money, 24 June 2026
• Here's a look back on what last year's final bracket looked like.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• A long time ago, in a tax bracket far, far away, a girl fell in love with a guy.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 19 Feb. 2026
• Teams go bonkers when the player pounds their school name on the bracket.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2026
• See the full playoff bracket here.
  — Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
• Both are in the eight-team 3A bracket for the largest schools.
  — Buddy Collings, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2026
• Filling out each bracket by hand is a habit that goes back to his youth wrestling days.
  — Kyle Newman, Denver Post, 21 Feb. 2026
• What are the tax brackets for tax year 2025?
  — Maia Pandey, jsonline.com, 15 Jan. 2026
• What are the tax brackets for tax year 2025?
  — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Jan. 2026
• How did tax brackets change for 2025?
  — Hannah Hudnall, IndyStar, 13 Jan. 2026
• On the other side of the bracket are two teams thirsty for glory.
  — American Statesman Sports Desk, Austin American Statesman, 3 Apr. 2026
• Ah, March — the perfect time of year for a bracket.
  — Jacob Wilt, Memphis Commercial Appeal, 2 Mar. 2026
• And that percentage will be the same as your tax bracket.
  — Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026

bracket

2 of 2 verb

• I wouldn't exactly bracket your paintings with those of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
• There won’t be pool play or a losers bracket.
  — Maggie Hendricks, Chicago Tribune, 29 Aug. 2025
• But then the rhetoric that bracketed those words made his point quite clear.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
• Steep hillsides etched with streams bracket the valley floor.
  — Michael Dunne, sacbee.com, 20 June 2017
• That was bracketed by two bogeys on his way to a 38 on the front nine.
  — Mike James, latimes.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Seabreeze, led by Crouch, advanced to boys bracket play as the No.
  — Buddy Collings, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• What bracket the Firebirds will take part in is anybody's guess now.
  — Richard Obert, azcentral, 26 Oct. 2019
• That’s just one of several winners bracket matchups with high stakes.
  — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2022
• These fraught welcomes bracket the show, open but wary, tinged with violence.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021
• His eyes, brown as acorns, were bracketed by deepening crow’s-feet.
  — Richard Conniff, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018
• The house, wood-frame with a low brick façade in front, bracketed the back-yard pool, with upstairs bedrooms at both ends.
  — T. Coraghessan Boyle, New Yorker, 14 Sep. 2025
• Without him, frankly, there isn’t a team in the West bracket the Spurs would be clear favorites to beat.
  — Jim Lefko, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2018
• The frames used to bracket history — and to place ourselves within it — are malleable.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• Vocally, the first and last wives bracket the show with two astonishments.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2021
• Elliott won his next four matches in the consolation bracket to advance to the fifth-place match.
  — Jon J. Kerr, chicagotribune.com, 28 May 2017
• But how does that somehow get bracketed with on-court coaching, a fundamental change to the very essence of the sport?
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 20 Sep. 2017
• These domestic sequences are bracketed with scenes on the border.
  — Alexander Nazaryan, New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2026
• Also, there was no way the Chargers could bracket both receivers with two defenders.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 28 Nov. 2022
• But Staples’s complaints about the small pond of hip-hop are bracketed by wider discontent.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 June 2017
• But Dallas patched up its wounds and strolled its way to a June Joust winners bracket final.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 10 June 2021
• Regardless of where the Tigers get bracketed, Pearl's message to his team this week is clear.
  — Tom Green, AL.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• The new design is considered stronger, allowing steel pillars to bracket each end into the ground.
  — Andrew Moseman, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2010
• Don’t forget to keep voting in our daily Survivor winners bracket!
  — Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Mar. 2026
• At the rear, a diffuser-like finisher is bracketed by those large oval tailpipes, and a small, gloss-black lip spoiler adorns the trunk lid.
  — Jim Resnick, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2018
• Callers even got their inquiries answered on the days bracketing Christmas.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2026
• At the front is a super-sized kidney grille bracketed by a pair of slim LED headlights.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 28 June 2019
• The story and the colors are used to bracket the beginning and end credits of the documentary.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
• The mayor’s ads ran before and after the debate, bracketing it with a show of his financial muscle.
  — William Neuman, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2017
• Maeda did not start either of the two games against Oakland earlier this week, a series bracketed by two off days.
  — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 14 Apr. 2018
• The Hawks will be using a box-plus-one zone defense, in which four defenders bracket the slot and the fifth defender chases.
  — Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 27 Sep. 2022