How to Use bracing in a Sentence

bracing

adjective

• Take the plunge into the bracing water from the pier on the far side of the cove.
  — Elaine Glusac, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020
• The bright lime juice and herbaceous cilantro are most bracing straight out of the blender.
  — Bon Appetit, 28 May 2018
• Wade hit the bracing quarterback hard enough to keep him down on the turf for a few minutes.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 29 Dec. 2019
• Plus, the seat is heated to make chilly winter mornings a bit less bracing.
  — Adrienne So, Wired, 18 Feb. 2020
• Read on for seven places to seek out for a bracing taste of Danish harbor bathing.
  — Regan Stephens, Vogue, 23 Jan. 2023
• And the true watchers of the wall were there for all of it, responding to the bracing action with some excellent Game of Thrones memes.
  — Ashley Hoffman, Time, 21 Aug. 2017
• A few decades later, the bracing scent had become a far more populist perfume.
  — Brennan Kilbane, Allure, 30 Mar. 2018
• The film won the Berlinale Golden Bear for its bracing portrayal of life in modern-day Iran.
  — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Apr. 2020
• The bracing question is whether Putin might test that proposition.
  — Bill Powell, Newsweek, 7 Oct. 2014
• Order the pancake of the day, which comes with a tiny beaker of real maple syrup, or one of the breakfast sandwiches, plus a bracing glass of beet lemonade.
  — Doug MacCash, NOLA.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• Hello Mary is an instant contender for 2023’s most bracing entrance to the stage, sharp and self-assured.
  — Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2022
• That is a bracing message in an era of cosy political pacts.
  — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
• May there be a bracing aroma of brine in the air in honor of your bicentennial, Mr. Melville.
  — Colin Fleming, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2019
• The most bracing pieces are sometimes the least defensible.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 7 June 2019
• At dessert, the humble French pudding dessert pot de crème carried the bracing jolt of Mexican chocolate.
  — Mike Sutter, ExpressNews.com, 9 Jan. 2020
• The most beautiful and most bracing exhibition in town is also a rare event, the first solo show in nearly seven years—and the first in Chelsea—of Celmins’s work.
  — The New Yorker, 31 Mar. 2017
• And that’s the most bracing aspect of this exploration of real-life stories, performed in large part by people who can relate to them.
  — Matthew J. Palm, OrlandoSentinel.com, 9 Apr. 2018
• The spices in this chai tea are warm and bracing, with all of the antioxidants and antibacterial properties that go along with tea and spices.
  — Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2018
• That's why an approach that is poison to a good chunk of the political and media world could be a bracing tonic for the president's supporters in the midterms.
  — Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 20 June 2018
• Yet plenty of ambitious actors chose to go it alone on Boston-area stages in 2022, and the result was some of the year’s most bracing and memorable performances.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Dec. 2022
• Indeed, the most bracing thing about the album is Cyrus’s steadfast rejection of commitment, monogamy, or even romantic love as be-alls and end-alls.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 3 Dec. 2020
• At a time when many of us Americans feel a sense of national decline, Bono has a bracing alternative view.
  — David Brooks, The Atlantic, 31 Oct. 2022
• Ironically, a new and far more bracing example of the genre was just getting underway across town.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 24 May 2018
• IGK’s new Walnut Scrub, with a bracing peppermint scent, cools off the scalp after irritation from hot tools (and hot weather).
  — Chloe Atkins, Vogue, 22 July 2017
• One of the most bracing facts about Michigan's rise in cases is that nearly 40% of the state's residents have already received one dose of the vaccine, according to the state's tracking system.
  — Maeve Reston, CNN, 11 Apr. 2021
• Cupid’s Undie Run is a more bracing affair, where hundreds of folks scamper through the city streets wearing nothing but their undercrackers.
  — Luann Gibbs, Cincinnati.com, 10 Feb. 2020
• The tariffs Trump envisioned, which would begin at five per cent but could reach as high as twenty-five per cent by the fall, are a particularly bracing prospect at the current moment.
  — Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 19 June 2019
• Now, a metallic casket holding Gentry’s remains held a stark and bracing presence, solo, at center stage.
  — Nancy Kruh, PEOPLE.com, 15 Sep. 2017
• That book also told its story via a series of short, bracing paragraphs — many of them a single sentence or two — that easily could stand alone as tiny, Lydia Davis-like stories.
  — Jake Cline, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2020
• Those horror elements and intrusions from Death provide a bracing sense of unease and distance.
  — Vulture, 5 June 2023

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