Sentence examples for To brace oneself from inspiring English sources

The instinct, in these circumstances, is to brace oneself for the onslaught of unbearable Aussie swagger.

You have to brace yourself.

"That gives me time to brace myself".

The risk ratio for injured individuals was 1.2 1 (non-brace to brace groups; p = 0.65).

So how to brace yourself?

I tell my neighbor to brace himself.

I put my head down to brace.

Until then, though, one can simply admire hip-hop's ability to reconstitute itself, and brace oneself for the Snoop Dogg reggaeton record, which will surely be along within the week.

One braces oneself for off-key registers when a scholar starts talking about popular culture; but when Warner talks about, say, Men in Black, you are relieved to find that she gets the point of that film as much as she gets the point of The Odyssey.

One braces oneself for an austere bout of hopeless, unrequited miserablism, when the narrative takes an entirely unexpected turn with the arrival of Elizabeth Costello, the prim, lady-novelist subject of Coetzee's last book, who breezes in with a seemingly omniscient knowledge of the hero's emotional situation.

We also compared the unilateral above-the-knee brace with the standard bilateral foot abduction brace regarding both clinical outcome and compliance to brace use.