How to Use bris in a Sentence
bris
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This would place the bris in the middle of our vacation.
—Philip Galanes, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
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What’s a euphemism for the drop-of-wine anesthetic at a bris?
—Washington Post, 21 Jan. 2021
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Moral of the story: Never hire a drunk rabbi to perform a bris.
—Larry Fitzmaurice, Vulture, 1 Sep. 2021
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For Mile End's Tietolman, the deli is always there for people, from the start of life at a bris to the end of life at a shiva.
—Noah Sheidlower and Radhika Marya, CNN, 7 Nov. 2021
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In the next room, friends, family, an unusual mohel and their baby boy are about to participate in a bris.
—Christine Dolen, miamiherald, 29 May 2018
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Both the humor and the tension between the characters builds to a climax in which the play takes a serious tone as Alvarez (David) delivers a stirring speech as to why the bris is important to him.
—Marvin Glassman, Jewish Journal, 14 June 2018
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After a full day attending a bris with one side of the family and a St. Patrick’s Day bar crawl with the other, Esther experienced some peculiar dreams.
—Washington Post, 27 June 2019
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Which is why next time you get invited to a dinner party—or a book club, or a bris, or whatever—you're going to just go ahead and show up with a platter of these bad boys, unbidden, and show the world what you're made of.
—Claire Saffitz, Bon Appetit, 24 Oct. 2017
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The shooter attacked the Tree of Life synagogue during a bris, the ritual circumcision and party marking the entry of a new Jewish boy into the world.
—Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
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In a bris, a baby is welcomed not just into one family but into a covenantal community.
—Aaron Regunberg, The New Republic, 13 Aug. 2021
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The photographer assigned to shoot a bris, a ritual circumcision, hadn’t shown up, and the baby’s grandmother was panicking.
—New York Times, 31 Dec. 2021
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Those feelings, coupled with sleep deprivation and stress, culminated in a panic attack during his son’s bris.
—Douglas Quenqua, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2017
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A bris includes a circumcision performed by a mohel, or a ritual circumciser, and a baby naming.
—Zoe Greenberg, New York Times, 25 July 2017
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The practical conversations have ranged from how to safely perform an adult baptism to how to safely perform a Jewish bris ceremony, Galiatsatos said.
—Colin Campbell, baltimoresun.com, 26 Apr. 2021
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Leopoldstadt deserves a Broadway transfer, but New York audiences will hardly need Gretl to deliver her straight-to-auditorium explanation of what a bris is.
—Kate Maltby, The New York Review of Books, 14 Feb. 2020
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In the latter section, museum guests will find a ceremonial lace outfit for a baby boy’s bris (circumcision) ceremony made from his mother’s wedding gown.
—Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 16 June 2017
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In Squirrel Hill this Saturday, synagogue members were reported to have been celebrating a bris, the ritual circumcision of Jewish infant males, a ritual designed to help welcome a newborn into a new life, culture, and community.
—Tara Isabella Burton, Vox, 27 Oct. 2018
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