Sentence examples for rack one's brain from inspiring English sources

It's tough to rack one's brain in search of curiosity with no prompt.

Not everything needs to be puzzled out, and racking one's brains does not necessarily result in cleverness.

It's too much, too often, I rack my brains what I could do to break free of my publisher, but racking one's brains doesn't produce miracles.

He just didn't have that quintessentially human spark of genius which inhabits the truly professional torturer; the ability, when the chips are down, of relentlessly racking one's brains to devise new and more excruciating methods of inflicting pain upon a fellow human being.

While transferring the racks, one must make sure that the topographic status or distribution of these racks in the back-up freezer matches that of the disabled freezer.

(FG 1); "I racked my brain over page 38 (pictogram).

I rack my brain for a suitable response and respond with palpable enthusiasm.

Nevertheless, he soldiered on, racked his brain and made some picks.

I racked my brain for where I'd seen it.

I racked my brain for where I was going to get the money to buy it.

I racked my brain, trying to see where I had gone wrong.