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How to use broach in a sentence

15 example sentences · noun, verb

Broach means a series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here. Example: “French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.”

Examples of broach by meaning

verbTo open, to make an opening into; to pierce.

  • French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.

verbTo begin discussion about (something).

  • I broached the subject of contraceptives carefully when the teenager mentioned his promiscuity.
  • Yet he was much too much scared of broaching any man, let alone one in a peaked cap, to dare to ask.1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter 4, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC
  • I have tried on several occasions to broach the subject of my love to Lys; but she will not listen.1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp....

verbTo be turned sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves.

  • The small boat broached and nearly sank, because of the large waves.

verbTo cause to turn sideways to oncoming waves, especially large or breaking waves (usually followed by to; also...

  • Each time we came around into the wind, the sea broached our bow.

verbTo break the surface of the water.

  • Diving officer, broach the ship!
  • The Politovskiy soared through the surface of the Atlantic like a broaching whale, coming three quarters of her length out of the water before crashing back.1984, Tom Clancy, “The Eighth Day: Friday, 10 December”, in The Hunt for Red October, Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, →ISBN...

More sentences with broach

  • They had seen that the Metropolitan was bringing in lower returns, having broached its City extensions.2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 61. From the entry in tandem
  • Had she broached to, she would ultimately have been reported lost with all hands and no tidings.1911 June, Jack London, The Cruise of the Snark, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC. From the entry broach to
  • The wealthy adorn themselves besides with ribbons and garterings of various colors, beads and silver broaches.1900, Edwin MacMinn, On the Frontier with Colonel Antes. From the entry gartering
  • With the heavy seas trying to broach the boat they baled — and eventually found someone had forgotten to put the bung in.1996, Dudley Pope, Life in Nelson's Navy. From the entry bung
  • Look-out sharp or she’ll broach to!”1901, The Ghost Ship author=John Conroy Hutcheson, Chapter Six. From the entry broach to
  • The idea of an appcoin is not without its critics, however, as the topic broaches the sensitive topic of how assets are pre-allocated by cryptocurrency projects.2014 August 2, Daniel Cawrey, “The Promise and Pitfalls of Crypto Crowdfunding”, in CoinDesk, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2014. From the entry initial coin offering
  • Simplex zeroids seem to provide an alternative framework for discussing the themes broached in this paper, and of course Theorems 1—4 can be reexpressed in terms of simplex zeroids.1993, Keith Walker, Surveys in combinatorics, 1993, page 166. From the entry zeroid

Meaning of broach

  1. noun A series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.
  2. noun A broad chisel for stone-cutting.
  3. noun A spit for cooking food.

Full definition of broach

Questions about broach in a sentence

How do you use broach in a sentence?
Broach is used as a noun and verb. For example: “French knights at Agincourt were unable to broach the English line.”
What is a short sentence with broach?
“Diving officer, broach the ship!”
What does broach mean?
Broach means a series of chisel points mounted on one piece of steel. For example, the toothed stone chisel shown here.

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