Sentence examples for could brace from inspiring English sources

The driver's footwell is also too narrow to allow a dead pedal that you could brace your left foot against.

Or it could brace itself for heavy migration, as poor Northerners moved to the South in search of higher wages.

Then the dispirited executives went to lunch, so that they could brace themselves for the afternoon session, "New Sources of Vulnerability: Thinking the Unthinkable".

Yamasaki had something similar in mind for the World Trade Center, but on a much larger scale: solid elements at the edges, which he could brace himself on before looking out.

In theory they could brace themselves for gruesome broadcasts.

People.I warned you about the GA finale so you could brace yourself or whatever.

The ban is the final step in a 2006 prohibition on smoking in public places, which had granted postponements to restaurants, bars, discos, casinos and other commercial pleasure enterprises so that they could better brace themselves for smokelessness.

Zipping down the highway, the chain-smoking, risk-loving chief executive of Fiat could only brace for impact as his red Ferrari plowed into the creeping Renault with an elderly driver at the wheel.

Very simply, they made it too large, and too near the surface of the ground, and they couldn't brace it, either, since wood was so scarce on the prairie in those days that the lumber for such buildings as they had was carted in from Minnesota.

It was intense because I couldn't brace myself.

The latest figures for the Class of 2018 suggest the District could be bracing for a dip, though perhaps not as steep as initially feared.