How to Use brain in a Sentence

brain

1 of 2 noun
  • The left and right sides of the brain have different functions.
  • The other children always teased him about being such a brain.
  • Scientists are learning more about how the human brain works.
  • But the laser singes her brain.
    — Diana Arterian, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Luke likened his brain to a bronc.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2025
  • What does that do to their brains?
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 10 June 2026
  • That was just how his brain worked.
    — Bob Vitale, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • My heart and brain were on fire.
    — Jenna MacMillan, IndieWire, 11 Mar. 2026
  • Just get them out of your brain.
    — Luciana Paulise, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Your brain cannot process that, right?
    — Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Your brain cannot process that, right?
    — Deputy Managing Editor, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2026
  • In fact, this is just how brains are.
    — Dr. Deepika Chopra, Flow Space, 16 June 2026
  • Soon, his brain was hooked on that dopamine rush.
    — Rachel Hale, USA Today, 18 Mar. 2026
  • In Alzheimer's, brain cells die too soon.
    — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Instead of my mouth and my brain.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The brain and mind are one system.
    — Eric J. Nestler, STAT, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Anyone with a brain could see that.
    — Christina Dugan Ramirez, FOXNews.com, 26 May 2026
  • Carter died and now my brain is broken.
    — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Your brain is very good at time travel.
    — Angela Haupt, Time, 21 Jan. 2026
  • And there is something of a brain dream.
    — Trevor Clawson, Forbes.com, 18 Sep. 2025
  • We are assured that his brain will heal.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Mar. 2026
  • That’s an idea that stuck in my brain, but that’s not a movie.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 12 May 2026
  • It’s been awesome to pick his brain.
    — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 17 Feb. 2026
  • So could a brain training game.
    — Marissa Martinez, NBC news, 10 Feb. 2026
  • But this beauty has brains, too!
    — Kate McGregor, Architectural Digest, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Great campaigns make the brain light up first.
    — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Your body knows before your brain does.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 27 Jan. 2026
  • These same healthy habits (and more) can boost your brain health, too.
    — Brittany Dube, Health, 9 June 2026
  • The brain misfires on what feels charged or taboo.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 24 Feb. 2026
  • That’s something my brain doesn’t go to.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2026

brain

2 of 2 verb
  • The tree limb fell and nearly brained me.
  • But no squirrel brains for me, thanks.
    — Josh Miller, Southern Living, 21 Feb. 2026
  • There were biscuits hard enough to brain a bear with.
    — Byron W. Dalrymple, Outdoor Life, 4 June 2026
  • Then there is the activism at its most mush-brained.
    — Literary Hub, 3 June 2026
  • This can help alleviate back and neck stress and give your eyes and brain a break from the screen.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune, 28 July 2022
  • The new set of donors, by contrast, come from the first category and are not brain dead.
    — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Talent is good and brains better, but most of us have little control of either.
    — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 27 July 2017
  • No one knows yet if the man has been identified or if his wife has brained him with a skillet or filed for divorce.
    — Ellie Delano, Woman's Day, 11 June 2013
  • Internet connections can be wireless, so why shouldn’t brain medicine be?
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2015
  • Yet focusing on chicken shops is not completely bird-brained.
    — The Economist, 22 Aug. 2019
  • At least 64 people perished during the storm, drowned in their houses or brained by flying debris.
    — The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The failure of that plan to alleviate hunger suggests to many Venezuelans that this one, too, is hare-brained.
    — The Economist, 21 Sep. 2017
  • And Daryl, of course, is defined in part by the death of Merle and having brained Merle.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Oct. 2023
  • This has meant keeping the games going even as the league faced everything from domestic abuse cases to brain injuries.
    — Jason Parham, WIRED, 15 Aug. 2019
  • This scenario, although probable, is not only ludicrous but lame-brained as well.
    — Orange County Register, 18 Feb. 2017
  • They are linked to brain developmental problems in infants and cancer.
    — Katy Stech Ferek, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2022
  • Then of course there’s me, spying on these other women — and some dads, too — instead of keeping tabs on my four kids, one of whom is poised to brain somebody with a stick.
    — Washington Post, 4 June 2021
  • They were speared by flying lumber, brained by coconuts flying nearly 200 miles per hour, or simply blown off the islands to who knows where.
    — National Geographic, 8 Sep. 2017
  • When science said dinosaurs were pea-brained and cold-blooded, humans took their demise as proof of the superiority of warm, clever mammals.
    — Scottie Andrew, CNN Money, 5 Apr. 2026
  • As anyone who's ever seen a mouse navigate a maze knows, the animals are often used in studies to understand the way in which brains function.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 29 Dec. 2024
  • According to the study, the ratio of neurons to brain size in most carnivores was nearly equivalent to herbivores.
    — Elly Belle, Teen Vogue, 18 June 2018
  • To Rio’s distress, a group of boys at a table nearby start to flirt coarsely with the overdeveloped and somewhat under-brained Pucha.
    — Deborah Eisenberg, The New York Review of Books, 27 May 2020
  • This less average bone and muscle support makes the head and brain more vulnerable to sudden movement and predicts risk for concussion.
    — Bob Roehr, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2016
  • Long before blows land, the audience is taking inventory of the props, assessing which could be used by one brother to brain or strangle the other.
    — Graeme Wood, The Atlantic, 11 July 2019
  • By the 1980s, scientists had figured out that our early ancient relatives were short and small-brained up to about two million years ago.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Nov. 2016
  • The researchers contend that this study marks the first time that a machine-learning algorithm has been matched to brain data to explain the workings of a high-level cognitive task.
    — Anna Blaustein, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2021
  • The yawning space between is echoed by an endless lateral runway that makes every entrance and exit seem like a trek and requires the actors to duck their heads to avoid getting brained on the way out.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Oct. 2019
  • For example, Google’s state-of-the-art Gemini 3 model was brained on TPUs.
    — Kif Leswing, CNBC, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The priority is personal to Biden, who lost his son Beau Biden to brain cancer in 2015.
    — Marisa Schultz, Fox News, 20 Feb. 2021
  • The cancer initiative is personal for Biden, who lost his son Beau Biden to brain cancer in 2015.
    — Alexander Thompson, BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2022

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