Sentence examples for bracing it against from inspiring English sources

One man crouched to the ground, his hands interlaced behind his head, as if bracing it against the tension.

Nevertheless, if you suffer from motion sickness, try to find the part of the ship where movement is minimised and stabilise head movement by bracing it against a fixed object.

I walked slowly, bracing it against my chest.

He put the pot on the floor and braced it against the fridge with his foot, pumping the masher up and down while an assistant poured in milk.

Find a large branch and brace it securely against a large tree.

But they found a vertical crack and managed to climb it by bracing feet against one side and backs against the other.

Farther up, they encountered what was later named the Hillary Step — a sheer face of rock and ice 40 feet high that Sir Edmund called "the most formidable obstacle on the ridge". But they found a vertical crack and managed to climb it by bracing feet against one side and backs against the other.

Some argued with volunteers, claiming others had cut ahead, but many stuck it out, bracing against an icy wind in little more than their gowns and tuxedos.

They encounter a street that rises in front of them like a sheer rockface and, bracing a foot against it first, like Fred Astaire dancing around the walls in Royal Wedding, they proceed to walk straight upwards.

If the door is not hot, brace yourself against it and open slowly.

"I can stand," he said, and, bracing himself against the table, he did.