Words similar to braces

Example sentences for: braces

How can you use “braces” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

To make matters worse, she wore braces for years and just got them off.
She was unable to chew gum while the braces were on, so now she is going "cow wild," so to speak.
One drowned her paralyzed son by pushing him off a canoe on a family outing, leaving him and his 50 pounds of metal leg braces to sink to the bottom."
Note to readers: if a story's headline is built around words like "anticipates" "expects," "awaits" or "braces," odds are good there's not much actual news in it.
This resulted from a far-sighted 1950s Energy Department program to recycle scrap metal from nuclear weapons facilities into forms that could be used in household products, jewelry, and even children's braces.