Sentence examples for brim from inspiring English sources

The word "brim" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a noun or verb to refer to the upper edge of a container that is full, or to form an expression related to having something to a full extent. For example: "The cup was full to the brim with delicious ice cream."

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brim

noun

The sea; ocean; water; flood.

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Foxman pointed out that Galliano was wearing blue, not black like a Hasid, and a gray hat without the standard wide brim.

Jo Ball, 47, from Sunbury, south-west of London, wearing a straw hat with a union flag tied around the brim, was ruefully watching the screen – now showing an empty court – as her friend packed up their picnic things.

Basins brim with live fish and sea turtles that clients can kill at home or have slaughtered on the spot.

Hotels in the capital, Kigali, brim with Westerners attending conferences.

Sparks may still fly on the assembly line and the two towers, each holding 400 cars, are stacked to the brim, but customers are hard to find.VW's lament is also Germany's.

His speeches brim with grim economic prognoses and stern injunctions to Singaporeans to tighten their belts.

The deeper one is 3.9km from side to side and 650 metres from brim to bottom.

BRIGHT orange hair peeps out from under a woman's navy-blue hat, its brim casting an emerald-green shadow on her brow.

Unlike most people, though, he can serve himself a draft Stella Artois exactly as Belgian bartenders do: cooled to the perfect 3°C and with a frothy head skimmed to the brim of a chalice-shaped glass.

The city has hosted any number of musical dramas that brim with controversy, courtesy of John Adams, an American composer, and Peter Sellars, an American theatre director.

Issues brim with exuberant political stories, recounted with the colour and detail fans use to describe their favourite football team.Kenya's advertising market rages strong, having risen nearly fivefold in the past five years, to 65.4 billion shillings, according to Ipsos, a research firm.

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