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How to use brooch in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun, verb

Brooch means a piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body. Example: “The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.”

More sentences with brooch

  • The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.From the entry profile
  • “Whatever are ye lookin' at, Neil?” his mother demanded, looking up from fastening her favorite garnet brooch.2010 December 17, Diana Gabaldon, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Anchor Canada, →ISBN. From the entry thon
  • The woman frowned and tinkered with one of the cheap brooches that held her shoulderstraps.1992, Sheelagh Kelly, chapter 20, in Jorvik: A Tale of the Last Viking, London: Century, →ISBN, page 395. From the entry shoulderstrap
  • How many needles Betty Flanders had lost there! and her garnet brooch.1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, page 127. From the entry garnet
  • Next day he took her in a little watch with a brooch to pin on her dress.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXI, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC. From the entry hanker
  • A plain gold brooch representing a merry-thought—the merry-thought of a sparrow, I should say, sir.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados. From the entry merry-thought
  • Homage became nightly tangible in bouquets, rings, brooches—things acceptable and (luckier than their donors) accepted.1911, Max Beerbohm, chapter II, in Zuleika Dobson. From the entry postprandially
  • Hyams, the doting owner of a gray poodle (“she wore it like a brooch,” said one neighbor), organized pet play dates on her floor.2008 June 23, Susan Dominus, “Uniting Neighbors, in Fun and Sorrow”, in New York Times. From the entry intrabuilding
  • Their place in the chronology of the big cemeteries is indicated by the less richly-decorated double-springed bronze brooches which are found here.1970, Kazimierz Godłowski, “The chronology of the Late Roman and early migration periods in Central Europe”, in Acta scientiarum…. From the entry cemetery
  • Betty Schlafer, head honcho of the Airport Cafe, is wearing a housedress with a purple floral design; a brooch filled with colored stones is pinned to her collar.1988 October 7, Judy Robb, “Restaurant Tours: a diner to fly for”, in Chicago Reader. From the entry housedress
  • But the woman of leaves and flowers, clad in the shimmering cloak of forest-green, with the silver moonsickle brooch at her shoulder, was no longer with them.1985, Moyra Caldecott, The Tower and the Emerald, London: Arrow Books, →ISBN. From the entry moonsickle

Meaning of brooch

  1. noun A piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.
  2. noun A painting all of one colour, such as a sepia painting.
  3. verb To adorn as with a brooch.

Full definition of brooch

Questions about brooch in a sentence

How do you use brooch in a sentence?
Brooch is used as a noun and verb. For example: “The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.”
What is a short sentence with brooch?
“The brooch showed the profile of a Victorian woman.”
What does brooch mean?
Brooch means a piece of ornamental jewellery having a pin allowing it to be fixed to garments worn on the upper body.

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