Example sentences for: brandy

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

  • Their brief encounters with Atlantic fishermen left little impact, but the advent of French and later British colonizers brought, in exchange for their beaver pelts, copper kettles and guns, blankets and brandy, Christianity, measles, and smallpox.

  • Memsahib `term of respect for a European lady,' for example, derives from English ma'am and Hindi sahib `sir, master,' a word borrowed by Hindi from Arabic; boxwallah `peddler' combines English box and Hindi wallah `person in charge of a particular thing'; chotapeg `half-sized drink' unites Hindi chota `little, small' and English peg (Anglo-Indian slang since at least 1864 for a drink, especially of brandy and soda water); and shroffage `commission charged for shroffing' combines shroff (an adaptation of Hindi saraf `banker, money-lender,' a word borrowed from Arabic) and the English suffix - age . Combinations of Hindi and Persian elements include:

  • Writing in Clipper Magazine , the Pan-Am house organ, Barbara Gibbons recounts her experience in drinking slivovitz during a recent trip to Yugoslavia: “A fiery plum brandy, its alcohol content ranges from 25 per cent ( mekana, soft) to 55 per cent ( ljuta , hot).

  • He played tennis with Franjo Tudjman, drank shots of plum brandy with Slobodan Milosevic before lunch, enacted hysterical scenes of feigned and real anger, and essentially sat on the heads of the various participants until they cried uncle.

  • The new book that the Star claims "blows [the] lid" on pop star Brandy's love life reveals such gasp-inducing nuggets as, "I liked [former boyfriend Kobe Bryant].


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