Sentence examples for on their brow from inspiring English sources

I miss many things about the north: regulated late-afternoon tea times; strangers talking to each other in the street without a prickle of panic-sweat appearing on their brow; the correct pronunciation of vowels.

They had very little to call their own except the sweat on their brow and the dirt on their hands.

OK, so I'm not including those who say they are "above it all" and have mastered the holiday ritual, all without a bead of sweat on their brow.

Even the cool American fashion editors had sweat on their brows!

Some women use Latisse, a prescription-strength lash grower, on their brows.

You can see them sitting on the airplanes, fidgeting nervously, eyes darting, little beads of sweat forming on their brows.

In a strobe-lit room, lithe 20-somethings are moving in tune to a bass beat, a sheen of sweat on their brows.

To me the first album [My People Were Fair and had Sky in Their Hair … But Now They're Content to Wear Stars on Their Brows] always sounded horrible.

There is an austerely dancing chorus in the vein of Lou Harrison ("Drop down, ye heavens"); Lazarus sings a raw, rollicking aria of celebration; and Mary tears into Erdrich's poem "Mary Magdalene" ("I will drive boys / to smash empty bottles on their brows"), with the chorus declaiming Hildegard von Bingen's medieval text "Spiritus Sanctus" behind her.

Using her own emotional responses to the full range of Velázquez's work – although there isn't much, he painted only 120 pictures in 40 years – Cumming pulls us so deeply into the painter's world that it seems as if we can feel the breath of his subjects on our cheeks, and see the sheeny sweat on their brows.

Some cheerfully smiled a message of affirmation while others starred with disdain painted on their brows.