How to Use bromide in a Sentence

bromide

noun

• His speech had nothing more to offer than the usual bromides about how everyone needs to work together.
• But for the most part Trump stuck to the usual State of the Union bromides.
  — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 31 Jan. 2018
• The type of stuff teams can write off with bromides about fresh starts and clean slates.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Cue the bromide that the best anti-poverty program is a job.
  — Chicago Tribune, Twin Cities, 10 Oct. 2019
• Another guest may offer bromides about the land of the free.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
• There, the old fathers of the industry send out a constant stream of start-up bromides.
  — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019
• For years, the Brady bromide was that the quarterback’s favorite receiver was the open one.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2019
• Or the ones who don’t whisper admiring bromides in his ear?
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• Methyl bromide is one example, though its use is now banned in many countries.
  — Chris Baraniuk, Wired, 16 July 2022
• That same report states that lithium chloride and bromide are salts.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
• Useful, but hardly the stuff of romance, which movie parents tend to reduce to bromides.
  — Karen Stabiner, New York Times, 27 June 2018
• What fiction is made out of is a bit of a mystery, but an old bromide has it that ideas should not be a major component.
  — Caleb Crain, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
• Horse hairs had a scaly layer that was absent from those of the rhino, but the researchers were able to strip this away with a solution of lithium bromide.
  — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
• Hillary Clinton offered predictable bromides and Bernie Sanders has a passion for yelling.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2019
• The old baseball bromide goes that momentum is only as good as the next day’s starting pitcher.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
• Yet one character stands out from the bromides of healing and redemption.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
• The bromide wash reduced releases of toxic mercury into the air when coal is burned.
  — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2017
• These questions lead us to the tiresome but correct bromide that more studies are needed to figure out the implications of this bump in the road.
  — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 10 May 2022
• The old bromide says there’s no such thing as bad publicity, and lawyer Barry Glazer believes it.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 11 May 2021
• Which is to say, to use an old journalism bromide: Afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted.
  — Kara Swisher, Recode, 1 Nov. 2018
• Now, some Democrats, with their explicit rounds of 'thank you for your service'-esque bromides during the hearing, have tried to do the same to bolster public support of impeachment, Dempsey said.
  — Alex Horton, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Nov. 2019
• The facility is the sole emitter of vinyl bromide — a likely carcinogen that can harm the liver — in the state, another worry the groups cited.
  — Halle Parker | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 2 Feb. 2021
• Bromide reacts with chlorine, which is used to disinfect drinking water, to form THMs.
  — Joe Marusak, charlotteobserver, 19 June 2017
• So it’s one thing for Jordan to stigmatize the tactics of Parker Coie and sully their name with conservative bromides.
  — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 7 July 2018
• In addition, the factory had stopped using a pesticide called methyl bromide, the researchers said.
  — Fox News, 12 May 2017
• Its supply of vecuronium bromide, another drug that stops the lungs, expired in March.
  — Fox News, 31 Aug. 2018
• Among the many indignities of aging is the irresistible temptation to reach for some menu of bromides and convey to the world those invaluable lessons about living.
  — Laura Kipnis, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• The state’s supply of vecuronium bromide, held in 75 vials, expires Thursday.
  — Kelly P. Kissel, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2018
• What came through here more than usual was the optimism of a comic whose worldview mixes dark conspiratorial musings with the upbeat bromides of a pep talk.
  — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 7 May 2024
• At 11:15, Hancock was given a three-drug lethal injection: midazolam for sedation, vecuronium bromide to halt respiration and potassium chloride, which stops the heart.
  — Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024