How to Use brazier in a Sentence
brazier
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Here the only illumination was from a single rush-light set in a metal brazier high up on the wall halfway along.
—Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2025
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To reach it, my group steered Ski-Doos over frozen lakes and drove through a blizzard on fat-tired quad bikes, our headlamps turning the snow into brazier sparks.
—Rick Jordan, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2023
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Weekend nights, Cleotilde Juárez Ramírez commands this patch of sidewalk, wielding a comal the size of a satellite dish over a brazier.
—Ligaya Mishan, New York Times, 11 May 2026
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In densely populated neighborhoods of flimsy wooden houses, charcoal braziers tumbled over, fuel tanks ruptured, combustible chemicals in apothecaries exploded, and high winds fanned the flames through alleys.
—Joshua Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
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On July 18, 1930, a 38-year-old public-works director named Juan Antonio Scasso stood inside the still-wet Estadio Centenario while his crew dried the floors with braziers.
—Paul Jebara, Condé Nast Traveler, 26 May 2026
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