brow - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • hill: He points off over the brow of a hill.

Converse of object

  • furrow: Alan now had a furrowed brow to add to his hands on hips pose.
  • frown: Gleaming with dark fire, his eyes had shrunk beneath his frowning brow.
  • wrinkle: The lawyer in his turn rose from his seat and gazed across the table with wrinkled brows.
  • knit: The relationship between public art and its publics involves enough problems to knit the brows of a whole platoon of therapists.
  • beat: They are not second class citizens and we will not be brow beaten into accepting a hugely inferior deal on their behalf.
  • draw: I stared in silence at Sherlock Holmes, whose lips were compressed and his brows drawn down over his eyes.

Adjective modifier

  • fevered: We are led to see ourselves touching his clammy magician's hands, and almost to imagine wiping the hair from his fevered brow.
  • bushy: His square face was framed by a thick beard and sapphire eyes glinted meanly beneath bushy brows.
  • thy: Prepare thy brow to frowne: knowst y me yet?
  • heavy: And Demon lives up to his name, with a heavy black brow doing nothing to hide his evil intentions.
  • blind: That one you love with the sweeping, open bends, the curving cambers and the blind brows.
  • straight: They wrote HELL on her straight, haughty brow.

Modifies a noun

  • chakra: Place a third stone, also pointing upwards, in the center of the forehead on the brow chakra.
  • ridge: Nose Profile: Straight from the brow ridge to the tip of the nose without a break in the line.
  • bent: See how he leans against that tree, with his arms crossed and his brow bent.
  • lift: A brow lift will NOT improve baggy eyelids, puffy eyes, or crows feet.
  • bone: Gently glide the gel over the brow bone, under the eye and on the outer eye area.

Noun used with modifier

  • thy: Why must I ' twixt the leaves of coronal, Put any kiss of pardon on thy brow?
  • eye: She walks off, with an eye brow raised.

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