How to Use brain in a Sentence

brain

1 of 2 noun

• 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.
• Either way, his joke chewed on my brain for the rest of the weekend.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 4 June 2023
• 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
• The race against Elon Musk to put chips in people’s brains What is Neuralink?
  — Faiz Siddiqui, Washington Post, 26 May 2023
• So, his brain and his body are always at war in some way.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 30 Sep. 2023
• The artist died of acute subdural hematoma, a form of brain bleeding, the statement said.
  — Mai Nishiyama, CNN, 8 Mar. 2024
• It can also be used, as a fun side hobby, to measure the age of his brain.
  — Time, 20 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The refreshed version has 800 new questions to try, so fire up those brain cells!
  — Rachel Rothman, Good Housekeeping, 18 Aug. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• How can music make my brain just go to a new dimension?
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 13 Oct. 2023
• The study also shows the value of studying brain endocasts to look into the past.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 17 Aug. 2023
• The brain may feel threatened by simply being in a crowded room.
  — Jennifer Chesak, Verywell Health, 12 Oct. 2023
• 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
• The brain was later transferred to a cushioned wooden box.
  — Nicole Dungca and Claire Healy, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Sep. 2023
• Some that can be fatal, require brain surgery or removal of adrenal glands.
  — Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Seven of the rats had worms in their hearts, pulmonary arteries and brain tissues.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
• Reads devotionals, news clips or emails to wake her brain up.
  — Katie Toussaint, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• And part of that relaxing is just, uh, putting my brain down, putting my anxiety down.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Will’s brain cells were dying because of a disease called Leigh syndrome.
  — Adithi Ramakrishnan, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2023
• 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
• This area of the brain is responsible for spatial memory and stores mental maps of the rat’s world.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 2 Nov. 2023
• There are two kinds of choke holds: a blood choke, which closes the carotid artery in the neck and cuts off blood supply to the brain; and an air choke, which closes the trachea and stops breathing.
  — Alex Thomas, The New Republic, 9 June 2023

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brain

2 of 2 verb

• The tree limb fell and nearly brained me.
• And yet the story rolls on, oblivious and hare-brained.
  — John Anderson, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• 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
• 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
• The failure of that plan to alleviate hunger suggests to many Venezuelans that this one, too, is hare-brained.
  — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
• Talent is good and brains better, but most of us have little control of either.
  — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 27 July 2017
• The priority is personal to Biden, who lost his son Beau Biden to brain cancer in 2015.
  — Marisa Schultz, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2021
• 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
• This guy's swan song before going to jail was apparently a bird-brained idea.
  — Barbara Hijek, Sun-Sentinel.com, 29 May 2017
• 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
• 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
• At least 64 people perished during the storm, drowned in their houses or brained by flying debris.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Internet connections can be wireless, so why shouldn’t brain medicine be?
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2015
• 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
• 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
• Yet focusing on chicken shops is not completely bird-brained.
  — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
• 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
• 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
• They are linked to brain developmental problems in infants and cancer.
  — Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
• This scenario, although probable, is not only ludicrous but lame-brained as well.
  — Orange County Register, 18 Feb. 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Today’s condom challenge will morph into tomorrow’s equally hare-brained idea.
  — Heidi Stevens, chicagotribune.com, 2 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024