Example sentences for: brits

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

  • And the Brits tend to use have got as meaning to have acquired or to possess or even to own, whereas in American usage that is considered somewhat informal in speech and not generally used in writing.

  • If a special friend has been found redundant, as the Brits say, by all means take that person to lunch and include other interested mourners, I mean, co-workers.

  • In other words, Americans (true to myth, we're all cowboys) are good at busting up established conventions, and Brits (who actually read books) are good at finding metaphorical meaning in the forms that we over here conceived.

  • When the Brits asked the U.S. what was up, says the paper, they weren't told.

  • (I'm not counting Professor Brown in Bednobs and Broomsticks . The Brits are simply effete.)


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