How to Use Brigadoon in a Sentence
Brigadoon
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Would Brigadoon seem as special, if the whole world turned out for its sporadic occurences?
—Chris Willman, Variety, 2024-08-09
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More than 200 mares — some pregnant, others nursing new foals — bring life to this horsy Brigadoon.
—Joe Drape, New York Times, 2023-05-04
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Macau here really seems like an illusion, a Chinese Brigadoon that maybe was there or wasn’t for Lord Doyle.
—Pete Hammond, Deadline, 30 Aug. 2025
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Because of their longevity, which is extreme for insects, and their Brigadoon-like reëmergences, the cicadas seem to exist almost outside of time.
—Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 2021-06-02
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The tornado then crossed an inlet, uprooted several more trees along Beechwood Road and tracked into the Brigadoon neighborhood.
—Leigh Morgan, al, 2023-08-11
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