How to Use broad-brush in a Sentence
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She’s equipped with a hefty financial aid package and a broad-brush vision of what her post-high school life will look like.
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Victoria Le,
Oc Register,
29 May 2026
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Warwick cautions that this is to avoid broad-brush judgments regarding who, what, when, where, why, and how.
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Ross Guidotti,
CBS News,
12 May 2026
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Moving away from a broad-brush approach to tailor marketing strategies to specific parks.
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Charlotte Observer,
19 Feb. 2026
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There’s so much that has been occluded by the broad-brush depiction of the eighties as the awful age of Reagan, yuppies, shoulder pads, mullets, and synth-drums.
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Literary Hub,
1 June 2026
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That’s not to overstate the depth or emotive nature of a fun little ride that uses broad-brush psychology as an excuse for an elegant puzzle-box that, once solved, does not require further thought.
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Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
19 Sep. 2025
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Characters archly comment on proceedings directly to camera at some points and retreat into the staid distance of historical drama at others, as passages of seemingly earnest melodrama crash abruptly into broad-brush contemporary satire.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
20 Sep. 2025
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