How to Use bromide in a Sentence

bromide

noun
  • His speech had nothing more to offer than the usual bromides about how everyone needs to work together.
  • The type of stuff teams can write off with bromides about fresh starts and clean slates.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 12 Sep. 2019
  • Methyl bromide is one example, though its use is now banned in many countries.
    — Chris Baraniuk, Wired, 16 July 2022
  • That same report states that lithium chloride and bromide are salts.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The agency also said bromide was present, but at low levels.
    — Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 26 June 2026
  • According to the old bromide, the grass is greener on the other side of the fence.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024
  • There, the old fathers of the industry send out a constant stream of start-up bromides.
    — Nellie Bowles, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2019
  • Blood testing showed a bromide level that was hundreds of times above normal.
    — Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • But for the most part Trump stuck to the usual State of the Union bromides.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 31 Jan. 2018
  • The bromide has it that a liberal is a person who won’t take his own side in an argument.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Bromism was once far more common due to bromide salts having been used in everyday products.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA Today, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Useful, but hardly the stuff of romance, which movie parents tend to reduce to bromides.
    — Karen Stabiner, New York Times, 27 June 2018
  • The bromide has been debunked, but there is power — and delight — in making coffee shop drinks at home.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 25 June 2026
  • What fiction is made out of is a bit of a mystery, but an old bromide has it that ideas should not be a major component.
    — Caleb Crain, The New York Review of Books, 17 June 2019
  • Yet one character stands out from the bromides of healing and redemption.
    — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2018
  • But Lee, wise to how the heart stutters, didn’t pander to audiences with bromides like love is love.
    — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2025
  • The old baseball bromide goes that momentum is only as good as the next day’s starting pitcher.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
  • For years, the Brady bromide was that the quarterback’s favorite receiver was the open one.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Dec. 2019
  • That drug was paired with two other drugs, rocuronium bromide and potassium acetate.
    — Jen Kirby, Daily Intelligencer, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Through that bogus bromide, not genuine black folklore, class privilege raised its self-righteous head.
    — Armond White, National Review, 8 Mar. 2023
  • Tran’s policy positions are not as well formed beyond bromides at this early stage of her campaign.
    — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 May 2023
  • This means bromide levels were even higher in Conyers and Rockdale.
    — Kristi Swartz, AJC.com, 26 June 2026
  • In place of triumph-of-the-human-spirit bromides, though, what the book delivers is its own kind of cinema, harsh and true.
    — New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • Horse hairs had a scaly layer that was absent from those of the rhino, but the researchers were able to strip this away with a solution of lithium bromide.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Hillary Clinton offered predictable bromides and Bernie Sanders has a passion for yelling.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 4 Oct. 2019
  • There is an outright rejection of bromides that would give us some conclusion of reassurance.
    — Richard Newby, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • These films explore those bonds without ever resorting to bromides or mawkishness.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 7 Nov. 2025
  • The old bromide says there’s no such thing as bad publicity, and lawyer Barry Glazer believes it.
    — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 11 May 2021
  • These questions lead us to the tiresome but correct bromide that more studies are needed to figure out the implications of this bump in the road.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, CNN, 10 May 2022
  • In addition, the factory had stopped using a pesticide called methyl bromide, the researchers said.
    — Fox News, 12 May 2017

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