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Example sentences for: brushes

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Even when the Big Guy himself is not explicitly mentioned--and he's mentioned plenty--the current crop of tabloid offerings brims with so many transcendent crises (life-threatening illnesses, brushes with sudden death, ruminations on mortality, profligate lives steered straight and narrow) that it feels like one long episode of Touched by an Angel .
The dialogue, much of it straight from the book, is full of terse humor (when a cop comes by to interrogate Vaughan about a hit-and-run, Catherine brushes him off: "Vaughan isn't interested in pedestrians").
The summit, "with its all-night sessions and constant brushes with disaster, was a setting in which Clinton's penchant for keeping all the balls in the air at once seemed to thrive," said the Post . "Clinton relied on a personal style of charm, persistence, and language that could be artfully imprecise," particularly when Netanyahu sought his assurance that the United States would release Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
Except the lawyers have traded their fine brushes for broad ones--paint rollers, perhaps--and the Microsoft case appears even smaller than it did before.
While FDA Rule is nowhere near as dramatic as other spots of its ilk (one shows a tobacco junkie smoking through a hole in her neck; another, a teen smoker's face putrefying, shedding worms, as she brushes her teeth; a third, Marlboro Man Wayne McLaren dying of lung cancer), it makes its point: Hook one kid early with promotions, and peer pressure will do the rest.