How to Use bris in a Sentence

bris

noun

• What’s a euphemism for the drop-of-wine anesthetic at a bris?
  — Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
• In the next room, friends, family, an unusual mohel and their baby boy are about to participate in a bris.
  — Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
• Naturally, the situation spirals out of control in the run-up to the baby’s bris.
  — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2022
• In a bris, a baby is welcomed not just into one family but into a covenantal community.
  — Aaron Regunberg, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
• For Mile End's Tietolman, the deli is always there for people, from the start of life at a bris to the end of life at a shiva.
  — Noah Sheidlower and Radhika Marya, CNN, 7 Nov. 2021
• One such family was that of Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel, who broke the law and held a bris eight days after his son’s birth.
  — Caren Schnur Neile, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2022
• Those feelings, coupled with sleep deprivation and stress, culminated in a panic attack during his son’s bris.
  — Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
• Also, the first bris at the prison took place in the 1850s, after a baby was born to a Jewish woman prisoner.
  — Stephen Silver, Sun Sentinel, 20 July 2026
• The photographer assigned to shoot a bris, a ritual circumcision, hadn’t shown up, and the baby’s grandmother was panicking.
  — New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
• Which is why next time you get invited to a dinner party—or a book club, or a bris, or whatever—you're going to just go ahead and show up with a platter of these bad boys, unbidden, and show the world what you're made of.
  — Claire Saffitz, Bon Appetit, 24 Oct. 2017
• In the latter section, museum guests will find a ceremonial lace outfit for a baby boy’s bris (circumcision) ceremony made from his mother’s wedding gown.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 16 June 2017
• Both the humor and the tension between the characters builds to a climax in which the play takes a serious tone as Alvarez (David) delivers a stirring speech as to why the bris is important to him.
  — Marvin Glassman, Jewish Journal, 14 June 2018
• The practical conversations have ranged from how to safely perform an adult baptism to how to safely perform a Jewish bris ceremony, Galiatsatos said.
  — Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2021
• The shooter attacked the Tree of Life synagogue during a bris, the ritual circumcision and party marking the entry of a new Jewish boy into the world.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
• When novelist Allegra Goodman introduces the clan, Jeanne is dying; at the book’s end, the family has assembled for Charlie’s bris.
  — Clare McHugh, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2026
• The gravitational pull of tradition had already begun to decline—as Khan mentions, plenty of parents forgo the bris, for good reasons—but the pandemic opened a decisive rupture between past and future.
  — Alex Kahn, The New Yorker, 27 July 2022
• Leopoldstadt deserves a Broadway transfer, but New York audiences will hardly need Gretl to deliver her straight-to-auditorium explanation of what a bris is.
  — Kate Maltby, The New York Review of Books, 14 Feb. 2020
• In Squirrel Hill this Saturday, synagogue members were reported to have been celebrating a bris, the ritual circumcision of Jewish infant males, a ritual designed to help welcome a newborn into a new life, culture, and community.
  — Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018