Word Finder - bringing

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(ditransitive) To transport toward somebody/somewhere.

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Waiter, please bring me a single malt whiskey.

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To supply or contribute.

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The new company director brought a fresh perspective on sales and marketing.

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To occasion or bring about.

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The controversial TV broadcast brought a storm of complaints.

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To raise (a lawsuit, charges, etc.) against somebody.

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To persuade; to induce; to draw; to lead; to guide.

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To produce in exchange; to sell for; to fetch.

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What does coal bring per ton?

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To pitch, often referring to a particularly hard thrown fastball.

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The closer Jones can really bring it.

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The act by which something is brought.

I'm bringing in a package.

As for the drink, there was no point in bringing that up.

I came out to thank you for bringing me here and saving me more than once from those things.

The bus is bringing him.

The rebels are bringing supplies?

I cursed myself for not bringing a flashlight as I felt around the walls for a light switch.

She'd summoned Quinn home from California to tell us, unknowingly bringing him to his death.

New, disease resistant trees are bringing back the splendor of what has been called one of the prettiest towns in New England.

Did she think Giddon had other reasons for bringing a young girl into the house?

He caught her arm, bringing her to an abrupt halt.

A strong hand gripped her arm, bringing her to an abrupt halt.

To him it was nothing more than bringing home a gallon of milk or a sack of feed.

The four trudged down stairs with Betsy bringing up the rear.

Looks like it was a good idea bringing you back from the dead after all.

Bringing an end to poverty, then, will also help bring an end to hunger.

She concentrated hard on another wilted flower, bringing it back to full bloom.

I'm not bringing an Original Vamp here without some sort of backup.

Claudia called for order as Fred's friends chatted with a pair of women in the last row, no doubt bringing the new arrivals up to speed.

You're welcome for bringing him back, by the way.

She thought about bringing Jonathan to see him, but it might frighten him.

Slowly a smile worked its way across his mouth, bringing warmth to her face.

Snapping necks, breaking Codes, bringing back the dead-dead.

Warmth and cold shot through her, righting her stomach but bringing intense pain to her head.

The idea of bringing a new life into such a horrific world made her feel sick.

Bringing Kiera here was her one mistake.

Thursday's storm had roared into town with uncommon severity, bringing with it not only more than two feet of fresh snow, but a wind that set the white stuff a-dancing and swirling about the town, like a wild rhumba or some native fertility rite.

Going to unpack then Connor and I will start bringing decorations down.

Testing his magic, he realized he could call forth a portal.  He needed an ally, but it wasn't Kris.  He had no intention of bringing Kris to meet Darkyn, not when he didn't know what Darkyn wanted.  His thoughts went to Gabriel, the best friend he hoped he hadn't lost completely.  Gabe wouldn't try to negotiate with Darkyn if things went bad.

Alright, but know that Tamer's planning on bringing it up next meeting.

As soon as Dean mentioned the luggage and briefcase locked in the trunk of the car, Fred insisted on protecting this valuable evidence by bringing them in—just for safekeeping.

Real bikers weren't bothered by a little rain, he tried to tell himself, but the car radio spoke of a storm system moving up from the south, bringing with it high winds and torren­tial rain.

While he'd considered bringing his revolver to Colorado, he had no official reason to do so and was reluctant to lie about being on police business.

The full import of his actions hit her, bringing a flood of warmth to her face.

There was no point in bringing Katie into their personal affairs – even if she had injected herself there.

I need to look into bringing some unrelated mares to the ranch.

Tim squealed, bringing Carmen's attention back to the boys.

They'd been cunning by bringing Claire here to distract him.

They ignored her as she joined the rest of the pages moving in and out of the stables, bringing horses and armament to the warriors.

Justin stared at him, realization slowly bringing a flush to his face.

Denton fussed over her, bringing her drinks and offering hors d'oeuvres.

Staring at her phone, she typed a quick note to her parents, asking if they were okay with her bringing the kids up.

From the 1st of April 1544, bringing with him some of his followers, he took up his abode in Basel, which was to be the New Jerusalem.

The rest of Consalvi's life was devoted to the work of reorganizing the States of the Church, and bringing back the allegiance of Europe to the papal throne.

Positive law, at least in progressive societies, is constantly tending to fall behind public opinion, and the expedients adopted for bringing it into harmony therewith are three, viz, legal fictions, equity and statutory legislation.

Being brought before the bar of the House of Lords he made submission as to his conduct in declaring parliament dissolved by the prorogation, and in violating the Lords' privileges by bringing a habeas corpus in the King's Bench.

He was suspected of bringing about a revolt in Scotland.

The malcontent nobles met at Zelena Hora (Griineberg) on the 28th of November 1465, and concluded an alliance against the king, bringing forward many - mostly untrue - accusations against him.

But in addition to bringing forward a fundamental and philosophical view of morbid processes, which probably contributed more than any other single cause to vindicate for pathology the place which he claimed for it among the biological sciences, Virchow made many important contributions to histology and morbid anatomy and to the study of particular diseases.

With more eloquence than judgment, he propounded theses bringing into relief the points in which the new doctrines clashed with the old.

Foreigners were frequently granted the right of public hospitality by the senate down to the end of the republic. The public hospes had a right to entertainment at the public expense, admission to sacrifices and games, the right of buying and selling on his own account, and of bringing an action at law without the intervention of a Roman patron.