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How to use brim in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Brim means originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge. Example: “The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.”

Examples of brim by meaning

nounThe topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.

  • The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.

nounThat of a hat.

  • He turned the back of his brim up stylishly.

verbTo be full until almost overflowing.

  • The room brimmed with people.
  • It was a hint of life in a place that still brims with memories of death, a reminder that even five years later, the attacks are not so very distant.2006, New York Times
  • Djokovic, brimming with energy and confidence, needed little encouragement and came haring in to chase down a drop shot in the next game, angling away the backhand to break before turning to his supporters to celebrate.2011 July 3, Piers Newbury, “Wimbledon 2011: Novak Djokovic beats Rafael Nadal in final”, in BBC Sport

nounSynonym of bream (“a freshwater fish from one of a number of genera”); specifically (US), the redbreast sunfish...

  • Sometimes her daddy would take her fishing for catfish or brim (bream) out on the lake in his john boat.2015, Susan D. Brandenburg, “Mercy”, in Surviving Strong (A Saxon Saga), Jacksonville, Fla.: Susan the Scribe, Inc., →ISBN, page 26

More sentences with brim

  • I’ve learned a new bind off that’s perfect for cuffs and brims of hats.From the entry bind off
  • The van was stuffed to the brim with camping equipment.From the entry to the brim
  • With an own goal, two penalties and two red cards, this match was full to the brim with controversy.From the entry to the brim
  • The brim of a hat flops.From the entry flop
  • These books might brim with repetitions, but they are hardly recapitulations.2025 January 25, Hilary Leichter, “A 'Groundhog Day' Time Loop So Long It Spans 7 Enthralling Books”, in The New York Times Book Review…. From the entry infraordinary
  • Even in lockdown, even in Covidtide, our house has continued to brim over with life.2021, Brad East, The Doctrine of Scripture, Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books, →ISBN, page xvi. From the entry COVIDtide
  • Chip clutched a basket brimming with real potatoes against his red flannel shirt.2020, Allison Marks, Wayne Marks, chapter 6, in Benny Feldman’s All-star Klezmer Band, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Green Bean Books, Pen &…. From the entry rootin' tootin'
  • Unusually, her hair was curled beneath the brim for the Queen’s Commonwealth Day service at Westminster Abbey.2016, Joely Chilcott, Fifty shades of K: Duchess shows her greys in drab hat and coat (in The Sun newspaper). From the entry K-Mid
  • Both have feathery things and a band around the head, but the hatinator also has a brim.2011 July 29, Miriam Lord, “Ladies Day punters spend like it's going out of fashion”, in The Irish Times. From the entry hatinator
  • I have many more adventures planned for the year and I'm brimming.2010, Kurt Hoelting, The Circumference of Home: One Man's Yearlong Quest for a Radically Local Life. From the entry dayenu
  • This is a novel of ideas—brimming with high concepts and complicated philosophical questions.2009, Tayari Jones, “[Review of Rebel Yell]”, in Alice Randall, Rebel Yell […], New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury USA, →ISBN. From the entry high concept
  • The strong performance of nonscripted series has some network executives brimming with confidence about their antistrike strategy.2008 January 14, Bill Carter, “Reality TV Is No Lightweight in the Battle to Outlast Strikers”, in New York Times. From the entry nonscripted
  • With a tip of the brim of her black cowboy hat, Sam greets her friend.2007, Nairne Holtz, The Skin Beneath, Insomniac Press, →ISBN, page 118. From the entry transwestite
  • Holding the hat by the brim, he flicked it toward the snake.1983, J. D. Hardin, Heather, Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 128. From the entry midair
  • "For thruppence you can buy one, full right to the brim."1971, Richard Sinclair with Caravan, “Golf Girl”, in In the Land of Grey and Pink. From the entry thruppence
  • Jason stood, slowly wringing the brim of his hat in his hands.1929, William Faulkner, “April 8, 1928”, in “The Sound and the Fury”, in The Sound and the Fury & As I Lay Dying, New York, N.Y.: The…. From the entry wring
  • And as she supped her tea she smiled discreetly at him over the brim.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 80. From the entry sup
  • Flowers, grass, trees, the sun and moon, even the human body, were to him brimming over with song.2017, Velvel Pasternak, Behind the Music, Stories, Anecdotes, Articles and Reflections, page 234. From the entry brim over
  • No, she stated again, in case we had not heard her, our laps brimming with Granny Smiths and Red Deliciouses.2013, Aimee Bender, “Appleless”, in The Color Master: Stories, London: Hutchinson, →ISBN, page 3. From the entry red delicious
  • The mall is brimming over with Christmas spirit.2006, Mike Thaler, “Deck the Mall”, in The Christmas Party from the Black Lagoon (Black Lagoon Adventures; 9), New York, N.Y.: Scholastic…. From the entry Kris Kringle
  • The centrepiece of her work was a weekly column that could brim with venom . . . .2004 October 21, Matt Wells, “Lynda Lee-Potter, doyenne of columnists, dies”, in guardian.co.uk, retrieved 27 Aug 2010. From the entry poison pen
  • Fill to the brim with nice hot coffee.1998 September 18, Lari, the Teenage Goddess of Heavenly Bodies and Brownies, “Big, Fuzzy Dollies”, in alt.tv.animaniacs (Usenet). From the entry coffeey
  • A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October.1944, Dylan Thomas, Poem in October. From the entry springful
  • How could any girl with an oval face like mine look nice in a hat without a brim?1915 December 3, conducted by “Egeria”, “Mainly for Women”, in Buenos Aires Herald: Illustrated Weekly Edition, number 594, Buenos Aires…. From the entry commissionairess
  • That was successful, for he struck her nose with the brim of his derby and she opened her eyes.1906, O. Henry, The Green Door. From the entry derby
  • Kinspeople, tender-handed, Found on the foreshore's brim A corpse the harsh sea stranded — And so far well with him.1906, The Dublin Review - Volume 138, page 68. From the entry tender-handed
  • Five yards of six-inch guipure lace for the brim.1900, L[yman] Frank Baum, quoting the artist of the “Fountain of Chiffon”, “Fountain Display”, in The Art of Decorating Dry Goods Windows…. From the entry bluette
  • Pacing among them is the parliamentary candidate, Rukchanok "Ice" Srinork, a 28-year-old woman brimming with energy, who constantly flicks through her social media pages.2023 May 8, Jonathan Head, “Thailand election: The young radicals shaking up politics”, in BBC News (World). From the entry flick through
  • He stood with feet splayed, fists resting on his hips as he stared at us from beneath the brim of his Smokey Bear.2013, Glenn Starkey, Amazon Moon, →ISBN, page 36. From the entry smokey bear
  • Across the front flaps of bornais and along the cracked brims of the men's hats, she sewed green appliquéd circles resembling the monk's-head cactus.2008, Frances de Pontes Peebles, The Seamstress. From the entry monk's head
  • Only a moderate knock perhaps in an era brimming with space age technology, and transplants, and artificial hips etcet, but still higher than Mozart's.1994, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, Sebastian Barker, The London Magazine. From the entry innings
  • Get her brimming with slops and gratitude and then test the atmosphere with a little kneesies behind the drape of the tablecloth.1966, William Stevens, The Peddler, page 138. From the entry kneesies
  • Jeeves entered, bearing a tray on which were glasses and a substantial shaker filled to the brim with the juice of the juniper berry.1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XXI. From the entry bimbos
  • The train was soon filled to the brim with obstreperous American tourists brandishing Pina Coladas from the upper deck, and started to resemble a smallish dry-land cruise ship.2026 March 18, Vitali Vitaliev, “Small is beautiful... Pt 3”, in RAIL, number 1057, page 68. From the entry obstreperous

Meaning of brim

  1. noun Originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.
  2. noun The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container.
  3. noun A projecting rim.

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Questions about brim in a sentence

How do you use brim in a sentence?
Brim is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “The toy box was filled to the brim with stuffed animals.”
What is a short sentence with brim?
“The room brimmed with people.”
What does brim mean?
Brim means originally, a border or edge of a sea, a river, or other body of water; now, any border or edge.

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