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Example sentences for: bracing

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But the raw numbers are bracing: in 1991 there were 49, and now there are 98.
You can extend the hike along the river for a picnic or bracing swim at Cameron Lake.
The family resemblance among his collages and those being made concurrently by artists in Germany, France, and even the United States provides a bracing example of what is meant by a Zeitgeist --in a time of shaky and sluggish telecommunications, several dozen widely separated artists all hit at once on the idea of chopping up whatever printed ephemera lay at hand and reassembling the fragments into dynamic compositions that reassigned their meaning.
For Clinton to abolish the DOE would be a bracing lesson in how to do just that.
One of the bracing elements in the novel is the casual darkness with which his characters discuss the world.