Sentence examples for much braced from inspiring English sources

"We were pretty much braced for the worst and were all but packed up and ready to go".

He who sacrifices too much braced themselves internally.

But, he said, "I'm fighting a losing battle". Too much bracing wind.

This being their first big get-together since Seattle, there was much bracing for violent street protests drawing attention to the shortcomings of globalization and free trade.

"We're moving into much more bracing times," says Martin Jacques, author of When China Rules the World and former editor of Marxism Today.

The Red Prince does something much more bracing and unusual: it looks at monarchism after its demise, its passions and politics, as a study of instructive illusions and premature dreams.

"I was braced for much more opprobrium".

Guy got to keep the bungled bonus, but braced for much more modest returns in future bills.

Mr. Stack added that investors weren't given much warning to brace themselves for the sell-off.

What she learned from her research was not so much grim as bracing, articulated point-blank in her italicized notes: "There is no solace, and also, This has been going on a long time".

Much as the annual Ugly Sweater party annoys, it is at least a gesture towards some earlier aspect of Christmas, when fun wasn't fun so much as a bracing thing to test your endurance.