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.
• Measure from the top of the mirror to the bracket as well as the length of the bracket.
  — Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Sep. 2023
• The base for the top bracket is schools with an enrollment of 2,300-plus.
  — Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2024
• Free lunch will be served at noon and the knockout brackets start at 1 p.m.
  — Shelby Dermer, The Enquirer, 11 May 2023
• Keep in Mind The placement of the pre-drilled brackets may not align with the studs in your bathroom wall.
  — Tabitha Britt, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Place the bolt into the bracket and thread the toggle (the wing piece) onto its end.
  — Jessica Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Aug. 2023
• Car testers of the day saw quarter-mile time slips in the mid-to-low 14-second bracket—quick for the day.
  — Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2023
• The prize puts Wednesday’s winner in the top tax bracket.
  — Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post, 20 July 2023
• And the Heat assuredly are not planning to play from the play-in bracket.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 14 Jan. 2024
• Based on his total homers (21), García is the No. 4 seed in the eight-man bracket.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 5 July 2023
• To open and close this gate, side hooks latch onto brackets.
  — Maya Polton, Parents, 14 July 2023
• Here's a look back on what last year's final bracket looked like.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 21 Mar. 2024
• The 6-foot-4 USC forward just walked by a bracket printed on a poster that stood taller than her head.
  — Thuc Nhi Nguyen, Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2024
• The state would still go from four to three brackets, with the lowest rate dropping to 3.5% and the highest rate being 6.5%.
  — Scott Bauer and Harm Venhuizen, Chicago Tribune, 23 June 2023
• Plus, there are three lengths to choose from (short, regular, long) to fit all height brackets.
  — Michelle Rostamian, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2023
• The names Romeo and Cruz bracket a large angel, and Harper's name is tattooed on his neck.
  — Celeste McCauley, Peoplemag, 17 Sep. 2023
• The shelf rests on adjustable brackets, one of which wasn’t fully seated in its slot.
  — Barry Markovsky, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2023
• The set comes with two sturdy shelves and a heavy-duty mounting bracket.
  — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 23 Feb. 2024
• Remove the Pad Mounting Support Next, loosen the two larger bolts that hold the mounting bracket for the pads.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• In each bracket, all nine Summit League teams will compete and 16 games will be played over a five-day span.
  — Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2024
• First, drill guide holes then fasten the brackets to the wall using a drill or screwdriver.
  — Alyssa Gautieri, Good Housekeeping, 31 Aug. 2023
• The Wimbledon women's bracket has been full of surprises in the past two weeks.
  — Anthony Gharib, USA TODAY, 14 July 2023
• The 96 Arizona teams trying to qualify for the big weekend will be placed in eight brackets with 12 teams each.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 25 May 2023
• Ardmore takes down Moody 4-2 and advances to the winners bracket final.
  — Preps, al, 17 May 2023
• Her Cloud scent has gone mega-viral because the spicy and sweet gourmand scent is beloved by people of all ages and tax brackets.
  — Jamie Wilson, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 June 2023
• The package comes with three screws that must be drilled into a wall in order to attach the bracket, which the floodlight then fits onto.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 July 2023

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bracket

2 of 2 verb

• I wouldn't exactly bracket your paintings with those of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci.
• Seabreeze, led by Crouch, advanced to boys bracket play as the No.
  — Buddy Collings, OrlandoSentinel.com, 1 Nov. 2017
• That was bracketed by two bogeys on his way to a 38 on the front nine.
  — Mike James, latimes.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• But then the rhetoric that bracketed those words made his point quite clear.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
• 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
• Kaos finished first out of a field of eight teams bracketed in the Super Group at the Rage Showcase.
  — Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 7 Aug. 2019
• Mutton chops thick enough for gray jays to nest in bracketed a wide smile.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
• Steep hillsides etched with streams bracket the valley floor.
  — Michael Dunne, sacbee.com, 20 June 2017
• What bracket the Firebirds will take part in is anybody's guess now.
  — Richard Obert, azcentral, 26 Oct. 2019
• At the front is a super-sized kidney grille bracketed by a pair of slim LED headlights.
  — Eric Bangeman, Ars Technica, 28 June 2019
• 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 frames used to bracket history — and to place ourselves within it — are malleable.
  — Washington Post, 7 May 2021
• The consolation bracket semis tipped off the day's action.
  — Daniel Boyette | [e-mail], AL.com, 28 Dec. 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
• That’s just one of several winners bracket matchups with high stakes.
  — Dallas News, 28 Feb. 2022
• 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
• The story and the colors are used to bracket the beginning and end credits of the documentary.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
• 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
• After his own cha cha with Koko Iwasaki was bracketed in the bottom three, fans voted, the judges weighed in and Walsh was walking.
  — Lars Brandle, Billboard, 27 Sep. 2023
• The sophomore was also 3-for-4 with two RBIs at the plate in the 7-2 winners bracket victory over Appalachian.
  — Dennis Victory, al, 18 May 2021
• The Empire play the Ultra at 5 p.m. Friday for an appearance in the winners bracket final.
  — Sean Collins, Dallas News, 17 June 2021
• These fraught welcomes bracket the show, open but wary, tinged with violence.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 July 2021
• But Staples’s complaints about the small pond of hip-hop are bracketed by wider discontent.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 23 June 2017
• Often ships will spend days waiting out the storms in the Vanylvsfjord or the Moldefjord, the narrow inlets that bracket the cliffs of Stadlandet.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 24 Apr. 2017
• 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
• If assigning Humphrey to Brown was not an option, bracketing Brown with two players might have been.
  — Edward Lee, baltimoresun.com, 11 Dec. 2017
• Vocally, the first and last wives bracket the show with two astonishments.
  — Helen Shaw, Vulture, 4 Oct. 2021
• Also, there was no way the Chargers could bracket both receivers with two defenders.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 28 Nov. 2022
• His eyes, brown as acorns, were bracketed by deepening crow’s-feet.
  — Richard Conniff, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2018

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