How to Use brawn in a Sentence

brawn

noun

• His brain, not his brawn, is now the critical piece.
  — Troy Renck, Denver Post, 20 Aug. 2025
• Over the last nine months, her brawn has proved to be a crucial asset.
  — Morgen Peck, Glamour, 11 Dec. 2018
• The construction team of the future may need more brains than brawn.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 14 Oct. 2021
• The team did fine without him, utilizing guards’ speed to make up for his brawn.
  — Miami Herald, 21 Nov. 2025
• Tell them to keep their eyes, their brawn, the tentacles of their need sticking to my skin.
  — Vandana Khanna, The New Republic, 25 Sep. 2020
• And rookie Cale Makar leads a blue-line corps that has a good mix of skill and brawn.
  — Mike Chambers, The Denver Post, 26 Jan. 2020
• As far as the game goes, this — like the first matchup — should be a battle of beauty versus brawn.
  — Jesse Newell, kansascity, 16 Feb. 2018
• Understand, coxswains are considered the brain of the brawn that mans the oars.
  — David Whiting, Orange County Register, 24 May 2017
• Use your brawn to accomplish the big stuff, but use your brain to get the little details right.
  — Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2022
• These days the power of the gods can barely compete with the brawn of marketing.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 16 Oct. 2020
• One was a mix of grace, speed and dexterity; the other was a display of pure brawn.
  — Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2022
• But this family-friendly resort has put its own twist on the feat of brains and a little brawn.
  — Jessica Poitevien, Travel + Leisure, 23 July 2021
• Now the senior center is flexing some brawn, too, and the timing couldn’t be better.
  — Matt Le Cren, Chicago Tribune, 14 Dec. 2022
• Sounds like this majestic creature might have had the brawn to help pull Santa’s team.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 16 Nov. 2021
• James is an unstoppable freight train who plays downhill and picks apart defenses with his brain and brawn.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 17 Dec. 2022
• Gavish, who is forty, has the kind of excess brawn that would deter most people from picking a fight.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 19 Mar. 2022
• No other vehicle on the road has a higher proportion of brains to brawn.
  — John Seabrook, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• This is a team built on brawn, physicality, rebounding and points in the paint.
  — Miami Herald, 21 Mar. 2026
• For the workers, the labor involved required skill, brawn, and a high tolerance for pain.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 30 May 2022
• At the 19 stops, the muscular crew uses cranes and brawn to download the cargo.
  — Fran Golden, Condé Nast Traveler, 12 Sep. 2019
• Here, church, fortress, and palace blend in a work of flamboyantly unnecessary grandeur and brawn.
  — Curbed, 18 July 2022
• Brazil's brawn Neymar is still the undisputed star of the Brazil team, but the pieces around him seem to be stronger now.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 6 June 2018
• The Bravolebrity was honored for both her resilience as a mom and brawn as a business owner.
  — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
• Known for his blond hair and signature white-and-blue outfit, Fred is often the brawn behind the gang's plans.
  — Samantha Stutsman, PEOPLE, 14 June 2026
• Eventually, brawn won out over style, as the Italians won 1-0.
  — SI.com, 7 Feb. 2018
• The pose is ironic, because most of the time, Yank relies on his formidable brawn, not brains.
  — Andrea Simakis, cleveland.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• What happens when a company gets pretty good with the brains part of the equation, but misses the mark on the brawn—or vice versa?
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
• So, to solve how to build a better sports car without boosting its brawn, the German marque leaned into the wind.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2022
• This isn’t Pittsburgh, with its Steelers brawn and its valley of great quarterbacks.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 5 May 2022
• Yet the engine also pulls with the unmistakably low-end brawn of a turbo—there are two of them flanking the six-cylinder.
  — Eric Tingwall, Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2020