Sentence examples for brimming from inspiring English sources

The word 'brimming' is correct and widely used in written English
You can use it to describe something that is overflowing with or full to the brim of something, or to describe someone who is very emotional or full of life. For example, "The lake was brimming with fish this morning."

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brimming

verb

Present participle of brim

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As it propagates perverse caricatures of communities brimming with the feckless and the idle, the actual situation facing people around the UK is airbrushed out of the picture.

This is not to say that all of his colleagues are brimming with confidence that Mr Miliband will lead them back into power after just one term of opposition, a feat performed by Labour only once before in its existence as a party.

When I started university, I was brimming over with enthusiasm about the lifelong career I was embarking on.

There is an onion tatin made with long, slender pink onions; a summer trifle like an Ascot hat, brimming with berries and currants, and a cheap and sumptuous dish of chicory sauteed with smoked bacon.

Our city skylines are brimming with teetering towers of phallic ambition, endlessly choked with competing monuments to the male member.

Five days, maybe six or seven if you dawdle, and in what feels like no time you'll be at the other end, in the pub, brimming with beer and achievement.

He warns that Sturgeon, "brimming with tartan ideological fervour" is aiming to form with Labour "a Caledonian socialist pact" and "an anti-English pact".

What if the slippery Mr Obama, his head brimming with arcane incumbent's knowledge about Pakistan and other tricksy stuff, runs circles around the tongue-tied Texan?

Last month's budget sought to make tax collection more efficient, but it was hardly brimming with reforms.

A consequence is that local banks are brimming with government cash that is not being spent.

JOHN McCAIN has had a big life, brimming with action and emotion.

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