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Example sentences for: bracing

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

Even if you’re not staying here, the ritzy Ritz-Carlton Hotel makes a fine rendezvous for a restful or bracing cocktail in mid-sightseeing.
Your contempt for American taste is as bracing as a splash of Old Spice, now with real buttery flavor.
But they are bracing: median income for whites is $37,171, for Hispanics $24,906, and for blacks, $23,482.
The state's legal aid agencies are also bracing for yet another cut in 2003 of some $600,000 of state funding.
For a bracing look at hypocrisy in cyberspace, take a look at the claims these schmatte peddlers make on their Web sites: