How to Use braille in a Sentence

braille

noun
  • The book title and her name are in braille.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • The book also will be printed in braille.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • To cope with the changes, Sophia started learning how to read braille.
    — Ryan Loren, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2020
  • That’s where the idea for a clothing line with braille labeling came in.
    — Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Up close, their surfaces look like braille, or code, sometimes stenciled over many times.
    — Vogue, 28 Oct. 2017
  • The packaging of the deck also features braille on the front and back.
    — Maddie Capron and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The performing arts center’s braille signs had been installed out of arm’s reach.
    — Rebecca Heilweil, Philly.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Unlike braille, these tactile letters can be scaled to any size the user requires.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 May 2018
  • There was another tree with ribbed bark, and another with bark covered in bumps that felt like braille.
    — Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Others may need costlier resources, such as those that translate their lessons into braille.
    — Becca Savransky, Idaho Statesman, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Chamorro chooses a box of sequins, which can be glued on the bottle to make the labeling braille.
    — Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2014
  • The braille on the memorial is too oversized for any person to read it, and some of it is too high for any human to reach.
    — Abigail Abrams, Time, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The drama culminates in the title card reveal, in which the drama’s name is spelled out first in braille.
    — Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 19 Apr. 2023
  • All rooms are accompanied by braille and tactile signage.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 June 2026
  • Count crocheting and braille as other skills Lima-Marin picked up in prison.
    — Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Ojai was designed for accessibility with large grab bars by the doors and braille on the door controls.
    — Rakesh Agrawal, PC Magazine, 28 June 2026
  • With number words, embossed numerals and braille, your little one will be able to learn in a variety of ways.
    — Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
  • The bedtime stories explore themes like bravery, acceptance and self-love, and are printed in both braille and text.
    — Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Karr's pole also has that phrase written in braille and in Potawatomie on separate sides along with other symbols.
    — Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 23 May 2017
  • The braille bricks are the latest in a series of new offerings from LEGO.
    — Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Existing braille embossers couldn’t produce anything other than text.
    — High School Journalism Institute, oregonlive.com, 22 July 2019
  • Also, hotel signs have braille, and the elevator has audio settings.
    — Eve Chen, USA Today, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Learn about Louis Braille’s tactile alphabet and practice writing braille.
    — The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2017
  • The braille is the second controversy that the FDR memorial has faced since it was built.
    — Abigail Abrams, Time, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Some also turned to the help of emojis and braille symbols to make the text more difficult to be recognized and scrubbed by censorship programs.
    — Jane Li, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2020
  • How envious this made me, his mastery of a tactile language born of sheer stuff, a kind of chemical-industrial braille.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • This 90-minute educational adventure will teach your children about how talking books and braille books are made.
    — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2019
  • Two baseplates to build your Legos on are also included in the set, which comes in a package detailed with braille embossing.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Letter information is then input into the device, translated to braille and sent to the motors.
    — Kevin Anderton, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
  • At the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the braille was too oversized to read for the blind.
    — Steve Dorsey, CBS News, 28 June 2019

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