Sentence examples for like a brace of from inspiring English sources

— Melissa Clark Smithsonian Shane Confectioneryy is believed to be the oldest continually operating candy shop in America, and two brothers – like a brace of Willy Wonkas – have bought and restored the Philadelphia landmark.

Nothing, I submit … What is it like to be a brace of oxen?

SWINGING BEEF sounded like just the thing, "a brace of pan-tanned bullberrie crisps with a chipotle salsa," as the menu has it.

"Waiting for you outside right now are a brace of British three-wheel beauties that the likes of Top Gear has never seen before.

Generously hospitable like all Iranians, he brought out a hookah and a brace of bottles of wine for his guests.

Through sites like Giant Bomb, Rock Paper Shotgun, Kotaku, IGN, Gamespot, Eurogamer, Penny Arcade, Polygon, Joystiq and a brace of others the community has complex conversations.

Dixon took a brace of 25-pounders.

In each port float a brace of fast, efficient whalers.

This may sound like Samuel Huntington's idea of the "clash of civilisations", but actually it is more like a bracing mixture of Metternichian pragmatism and – more unexpectedly – Edward Said's critique of "Orientalism".

In a protocol-constricted society, where venturing one's opinion too forcefully or even out of turn is frowned on, the show's arguments, in which foreigners regularly take on the most enervating features of life here, is like a bracing breath of freedom.

On its best nights, "Cast Party" feels like a bracing blast of air from Manhattan's theatre district.