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Example sentences for: braced

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By the dim light of their lanterns, a dingy rock surface, braced by rotting props, is visible.
USAT says the White House is braced for the simultaneous release of both the Clinton tape and the transcript of Lewinsky's grand jury testimony, what it calls "a high-stakes version of 'he said, she said.
So you stay braced, alert.
Protests are planned for Monday at Lincoln Center, and all involved (the picture's new distributor is Lion's Gate Films) have braced themselves for more noise and death threats.
But even a great genius like Marx whose head weighed more than 350 pounds and had to be braced up with a special cast iron frame, even he can't understand why love is a crime, the sort of crime spelled out in a restraining order from some judge (NEEDS HIS GODDAMNED HEAD EXAMINED!