Word Finder - brought

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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.

I brought you something to eat.

That was the end of the conversation and neither of them brought the subject up again that night.

The memory brought goose bumps to her arms.

Wars have often been the result of misunderstandings brought about by language.

Although his father was a king, Cyrus was brought up like the son of a common man.

The candles were brought in.

Yet when they brought her back, she was asleep.

The idea brought a rush of heat to her neck.

I had found a few early violets in the garden and brought them to my teacher.

When I was four years old, as I well remember, I was brought from Boston to this my native town, through these very woods and this field, to the pond.

The movement brought a painful awareness of how stiff her muscles were becoming.

Boris, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an aide-de- camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and then brought back to the general circle.

The seclusion she knew well, having been brought up less than five miles from this house.

Someone from the church or clinic must have been by and brought it for Alex.

In my time too; the war brought some money in and coal was getting dug so's there was jobs.

To one of these houses which had neither doors nor windows, but only one broad opening far up underneath the roof, the prisoners were brought by their captors.

Early in the morning two horses were brought to the door.

As we move out from that defined center, we come to disorders and disabilities—impairments of bodily systems that are brought about by injury, disease, or genetics.

A low rumble brought her attention to the horizon.

It brought her closer to the time when she could go back to the ranch.

As usual, that thought brought the sting of tears to her eyes.

Martha finally brought to daylight what was on all our minds.

We constantly longed to follow up on our endeavors and make sure what Howie discovered was brought to a positive conclusion.

Do you wish it brought at once?

The 1960s brought us hip replacement, the artificial heart, a liver transplant, and a lung transplant.

Had he brought her all the way out here to force himself on her?

Anatole brought two candles and placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light.

The young Princess Bolkonskaya had brought some work in a gold- embroidered velvet bag.

So that's why you brought me here.

The maid brought it.

So he was brought, quite blind, straight to her, and he goes up to her and falls down and says, 'Make me whole,' says he, 'and I'll give thee what the Tsar bestowed on me.'

But really, I fell into the pool at the fountain, and this kind man brought me here to get me dry.

But the travellers were obliged to rest, and while they were sitting on the rocky floor the Wizard felt in his pocket and brought out the nine tiny piglets.

The lesson in manners was not forgotten; for, always after that, the man was very polite when he brought his presents.

Despite their pale swollen faces and tattered uniforms, the hussars formed line for roll call, kept things in order, groomed their horses, polished their arms, brought in straw from the thatched roofs in place of fodder, and sat down to dine round the caldrons from which they rose up hungry, joking about their nasty food and their hunger.

We brought the ice cream.

He shifted forward, gripping her forearms in a way that brought their faces inches apart.

The caliph at once gave orders for the gardener to be brought before him the next day.

I made a terrified noise that brought Viny, my old nurse, to the rescue.

Ten minutes later Lavrushka brought the coffee.

He brought with him into our rearguard all the freshness of atmosphere of the French army, which was so alien to us.

Say that everything out of the hothouses must be brought here well wrapped up in felt.

He was conducted from that room along passages that turned backwards and forwards and was at last brought to the doors of the Lodge.

Two letters brought by a courier were handed to Speranski and he took them to his study.

With the help of a footman Tikhon brought in the bedstead and began putting it up.

He slung the dishtowel over his shoulder and one long step brought him to a point where she was pinned in the corner of the counter.

Tammy was in the back seat asleep, so she carefully unbuckled her and carried her to the house while Sarah brought in the shopping sacks.

Bordeaux was watching her in a way that brought color to her cheeks again.

I brought you breakfast!

It brought a further smile to the old man's face.