Sentence examples for brush by from inspiring English sources

"brush by" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You would use it to describe a situation in which two people come very close to each other without actually touching. For example, "As they passed each other, their coats brushed by."

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brush by

verb

To walk past another person, touching them slightly, normally by accident, and ignoring them.

  • The production manager brushed by me on the stairs. He seemed to be in a real hurry.

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Concepts like entrapment and vigilantism brush by.

These minute arachnids sit in the bracken waiting for a host to brush by.

One of the five lived in a big section of brush by the highway.

Hot spots crackled like campfires, still smoldering in brush by the water's edge.

Later, standing in the corridor, he wordlessly watched Papon brush by.

"After My Brush," by Melissa Mariano of Mount Laurel, is one of the funkiest pieces on display.

"I'm a believer," said Mr. Ravotti, who was given a brush by a reporter who received samples from the company.

Unlike Sanford, who essentially embraced the corner-lurking pachyderm in his campaign, Weiner wants to brush by it.

/ I wanna wear feathers and lace / I wanna brush by Anne Rice / And go down Bourbon Street".

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Better a brush-by than a brush-off.

However, it had been widely trailed that Mr Miliband would have a "brush-by" encounter with the US President.

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