The phrase "graze against" is a valid and usable expression in written English.
It can be used to describe a type of light contact or contact that is experienced between two surfaces. For example, "The tip of her finger grazed against the rough surface of the stone carving as she tried to clean it."
Bond films, even at their most nonsensical, tend to graze against political realities.
The lives of these characters and others coincidentally graze against one another and are unified in a larger way by the overarching violence.
We graze against the surface of genuine insight when we read that "the personality cult… [speaks] to the choreographed way Justin Trudeau rose to power" but we're quickly drowned again in hagiography before we're allowed to think too deeply about what, exactly, the prime minister's exquisitely-manicured stage performance might be obscuring.
And one fish grazes against him, rips the sack, and his body tumbles out, and a bunch of minnows come and eat little bits of him.
The semi-rational notions of the two mystics resonate in a particularly contemporary register, as fifteenth-century Russian religious thought grazes against the theories of relativity and quantum mechanics.
A bit like Rhye, it consists of the soft materials of vocals and instrumentation grazing against the starch of techno pulses, and looks set to soundtrack many a pillow-clutching Sunday afternoon.
The opening scene makes it plain that we are watching not a disguised life of Christ but the diary of a nobody, whose life merely grazes against that of the Messiah.
Gyllenhaal has never had a reputation for hedonism, though his career has grazed against tragedy; to many he will always be linked with Heath Ledger, his lover in the pioneering Brokeback Mountain, who would die of a prescription drug overdose in 2008.
Dr. Laura Martin Mobley stitches up a horse, at the on-site veterinarian clinic, that grazed against the side of a chuckwagon.
He'd lay down next to Kios when the little one plopped down on the floor, and he'd come up to me and lean into my leg, his head comfortably grazing against my hip whenever I was holding the baby.
I don't remember much about their set, except that they went on at about the same time I started to get a contact high and that at some point my crotch grazed against the big butt of a Wu groupie.
