Sentence examples for as a brace from inspiring English sources

Only the nuthatch can descend as easily as it can ascend; it climbs obliquely, using the upper foot for clinging and the lower foot as a brace.

Architects have also begun to use latticework girders, some with hydraulic shock absorbers, as a brace, or ecoskeleton, for tall buildings.

9) Now Bagul is just prancing around in an attic surrounded by what can only be described as a brace of Minipop Baguls.

62,693 v Chile (2013): England's World Cup hopefuls were handed a reality check as a brace from then-Barcelona forward Alexis Sanchez gave Chile a comfortable 2-0 win in London.

The 20-inch main was temporarily capped -- because water is even then flowing into the Murray Street main -- and a cement block has been placed in front of the cap, as a brace, just in case the cap broke off, just in case the thousands of gallons that were pulsing through it every minute suddenly decided to try an escape, blowing out the hole and everyone in it.

The jet grout also served as a "brace" for the wall below subgrade.

A 500-page headache is as possible as a bracing joyride.

Daley saw it as a bracing corrective to a frenzied and speculative culture in his field.

The extra staff act as a bracing shot in the arm and immediately ease the workload.

This case will doubtless serve as a bracing reminder for staff writers, freelances and editors.

In 2002, the memoir, "Dancing Arabs," was published, and it introduced Kashua as a bracing voice in Hebrew literature.