Sentence examples for I brushed against from inspiring English sources

"It was a world I brushed against as a child in the 50s," he recalls.

Now the city is violent, everything costs the earth, and we are all visible....They're in the room with me now, these people I brushed against today.

Orange-red dust settled on everything; if I brushed against a handrail it painted a mark on the chambray jumpsuit the plant had provided me with.

When I sat up, I brushed against the side of the tent and snow fell down the back of my jacket.

At the members' recent annual get-together I brushed against a sea of brilliant, eccentric, adventurous men and women, talking happily of past and future exploits.

The sweaty bodies I brushed against would have pushed back, would have called me a "faggot," would have stared at my lady friends' sensual dancing.

I'm a middle-class, coast-dwelling, urban lady prone to hives when I brush against anything green — exactly the sort, according to a classic study by Stephen Kellert, a professor of social ecology at Yale University, who most abhors hunting.

My ocean swims are blissfully uninterrupted, but the absence of protectors means sharper twinges of anxiety when I brush against something that might be a jellyfish, or a shark, or a whale, depending on how vivid my imagination is that day.

In a way this is the great idea of Proust when he writes about Chardin in 1895... it is, I think, in a certain way what both Chardin and Diderot thought". On the way out I brush against a little green glass object on his desk - don't worry, he says, it's not valuable.

He still refuses physical contact if I brush against something he considers "unclean," like a public wall, or if my coat has dropped on the floor.

I walked out in a field, the grass was high, it brushed against my legs.