How to Use brain in a Sentence
- The left and right sides of the brain have different functions.
- The other children always teased him about being such a brain.
- Scientists are learning more about how the human brain works.
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Either way, his joke chewed on my brain for the rest of the weekend.
—Chris Richards, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
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If the brain can cure the body but chooses not to, then maybe there's a good reason for the pain.
—Analisa Novak, CBS News, 19 Sep. 2023
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The race against Elon Musk to put chips in people’s brains What is Neuralink?
—Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
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So, his brain and his body are always at war in some way.
—Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2023
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The artist died of acute subdural hematoma, a form of brain bleeding, the statement said.
—Mai Nishiyama, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
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It can also be used, as a fun side hobby, to measure the age of his brain.
—Time, 20 Sep. 2023
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The fetus had two holes in his heart, no nose bone and his brain had not developed.
—Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 23 Dec. 2023
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The refreshed version has 800 new questions to try, so fire up those brain cells!
—Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2023
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Patrick Bailey, not one to miss a chance to pick the brain of a future Hall of Famer, did not hesitate.
—Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
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This is when a blood clot travels to the brain and interrupts blood flow and deprives the brain of oxygen.
—Laura Hensley, Verywell Health, 31 Aug. 2023
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For a man who relied on his brain and his body for his life’s vocation, the news couldn’t have been worse.
—Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
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How can music make my brain just go to a new dimension?
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
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The study also shows the value of studying brain endocasts to look into the past.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
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The brain may feel threatened by simply being in a crowded room.
—Jennifer Chesak, Verywell Health, 12 Oct. 2023
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The Almond and the Seahorse are the nicknames given to the parts of human brains that lay down new memories and hold on to the old ones.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Mar. 2024
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The brain was later transferred to a cushioned wooden box.
—Nicole Dungca and Claire Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
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Some that can be fatal, require brain surgery or removal of adrenal glands.
—Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
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In other words, the infection in a pimple on your nose has a somewhat clear path to your brain.
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 27 May 2023
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Seven of the rats had worms in their hearts, pulmonary arteries and brain tissues.
—Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
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Reads devotionals, news clips or emails to wake her brain up.
—Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
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And part of that relaxing is just, uh, putting my brain down, putting my anxiety down.
—Zack Sharf, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
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Every minute during a stroke, neurons in the brain die because of a lack of blood, Effendi said.
—Kyle Melnick, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
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The statement said the cause was acute subdural hematoma, a condition in which blood collects between the skull and brain.
—Kiuko Notoya, New York Times, 8 Mar. 2024
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Will’s brain cells were dying because of a disease called Leigh syndrome.
—Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
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The brain chip startup wants to use implants to connect your brain to a computer, a goal Musk has been working on for five years.
—Jennifer Korn, CNN, 8 Aug. 2023
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That’s a big deal, because the brain is not just willy-nilly making more cells left and right and using up all its energy.
—Nicholas Stfleur, STAT, 12 Apr. 2024
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The run is organized for the community to join survivors of brain injury and spread awareness.
—Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 13 Apr. 2024
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And yet the story rolls on, oblivious and hare-brained.
—John Anderson, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
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This can help alleviate back and neck stress and give your eyes and brain a break from the screen.
—Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 28 July 2022
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No one knows yet if the man has been identified or if his wife has brained him with a skillet or filed for divorce.
—Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 11 June 2013
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The failure of that plan to alleviate hunger suggests to many Venezuelans that this one, too, is hare-brained.
—The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
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Talent is good and brains better, but most of us have little control of either.
—Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 27 July 2017
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The priority is personal to Biden, who lost his son Beau Biden to brain cancer in 2015.
—Marisa Schultz, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2021
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The cancer initiative is personal for Biden, who lost his son Beau Biden to brain cancer in 2015.
—Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2022
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This guy's swan song before going to jail was apparently a bird-brained idea.
—Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 May 2017
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To Rio’s distress, a group of boys at a table nearby start to flirt coarsely with the overdeveloped and somewhat under-brained Pucha.
—Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
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Biden, who lost his son Beau Biden to brain cancer in 2015, has pledged to make the fight against cancer a key focus of his administration.
—Dom Calicchio, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2021
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At least 64 people perished during the storm, drowned in their houses or brained by flying debris.
—The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
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Then of course there’s me, spying on these other women — and some dads, too — instead of keeping tabs on my four kids, one of whom is poised to brain somebody with a stick.
—Washington Post, 4 June 2021
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The man who could brain Mr. Lingk with Rusty’s ashes, or the one who could harm and tie up a helpless old lady, would almost certainly be game for something that nasty.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Aug. 2022
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This has meant keeping the games going even as the league faced everything from domestic abuse cases to brain injuries.
—Jason Parham, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2019
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They were speared by flying lumber, brained by coconuts flying nearly 200 miles per hour, or simply blown off the islands to who knows where.
—National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2017
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By the 1980s, scientists had figured out that our early ancient relatives were short and small-brained up to about two million years ago.
—Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2016
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Internet connections can be wireless, so why shouldn’t brain medicine be?
—Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2015
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According to the study, the ratio of neurons to brain size in most carnivores was nearly equivalent to herbivores.
—Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
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The researchers contend that this study marks the first time that a machine-learning algorithm has been matched to brain data to explain the workings of a high-level cognitive task.
—Anna Blaustein, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2021
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Yet focusing on chicken shops is not completely bird-brained.
—The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
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Long before blows land, the audience is taking inventory of the props, assessing which could be used by one brother to brain or strangle the other.
—Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
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The yawning space between is echoed by an endless lateral runway that makes every entrance and exit seem like a trek and requires the actors to duck their heads to avoid getting brained on the way out.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2019
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They are linked to brain developmental problems in infants and cancer.
—Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
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This scenario, although probable, is not only ludicrous but lame-brained as well.
—Orange County Register, 18 Feb. 2017
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This less average bone and muscle support makes the head and brain more vulnerable to sudden movement and predicts risk for concussion.
—Bob Roehr, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2016
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But Scotti falls back on the same old, tired, lizard-brained and misogynistic argument that people used against Hillary Clinton: That ambitious women are off-putting.
—Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 5 Jan. 2018
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Some highlights that titillated our lizard brains the most: Daryl’s back on his motorcycle, leading a horde of zombies and making a lot of boxes explode.
—Laura Bradley, HWD, 22 Oct. 2017
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The people who can make an outsized difference bring a combination of what is conventionally known as left-brained and right-brained thinking.
—Quartz India, 11 Feb. 2020
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Today’s condom challenge will morph into tomorrow’s equally hare-brained idea.
—Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018
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And in this latter range, as brains demand more and more resources from the tiny creatures that host them, scientists like Wcislo and his colleague William Eberhard, also at the Smithsonian, think new evolutionary tricks should arise.
—Joshua Sokol, The Atlantic, 30 May 2017
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