(n.) The rim, border, or upper edge of a cup, dish, or any hollow vessel used for holding anything.
(n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border.
(n.) The rim of a hat.
(v. i.) To be full to the brim.
(v. t.) To fill to the brim, upper edge, or top.
(a.) Fierce; sharp; cold. See Breme.
Example Sentences:
(1) Last year, in a continuing campaign to improve policing , he produced a book brimming with indignation.
(2) In general, we could say that the combination of these daily rules makes the detention atmosphere unsafe, full of stress and brimful of pressure.
(3) Nutritional stresses are indicated by dental lesions, hypoplasias, stature, and skull base height and pelvic brim index.
(4) This week I spoke to Richard Murphy , the economist and tax expert, whose new book has the self-explanatory title The Courageous State and brims with imaginative thinking.
(5) The likelihood of failure or complication was greater for stones above than for those below the pelvic brim (15 of 25 or 60 per cent versus 26 of 75 or 35 per cent, p less than 0.05).
(6) His private palace, seven miles outside town in Kawele, brimmed with paintings, sculptures, stained glass, ersatz Louis XIV furniture, marble from Carrara in Italy and two swimming pools surrounded by loudspeakers playing his beloved Gregorian chants or classical music.
(7) It was subdivided into fractures of the acetabulum, fractures of the pelvic girdle, dislocations, and fractures of the pelvic brim on the basis of the system of Judet and Engler as well as Feldkamp.
(8) At 56 he brims with the energy of a much younger man; he has international standing and experience and an undoubted feel for the needs and ambitions of the big players.
(9) Kennedy's wife Vicki sat in the front row, her eyes always brimming but never overwhelmed.
(10) The distance from the external urethral orifice to the cranial pubic brim was correlated (P less than 0.001) with bodyweight but was not significantly different in the continent and incontinent bitches.
(11) 'I greet the year 1968 with serenity,' he announced, brimming with self-satisfaction.
(12) Diego Forlán, 30 yards from the target, showed all the confidence that has been brimming over in his work for the Europa League winners Atlético Madrid.
(13) Spurs have been guilty of starting matches sluggishly this season but they brimmed with menace from the start, Adebayor and Gareth Bale going close with headers from corners.
(14) Six or seven” out of 10 was the faintly damning verdict of one Chinese tourist, an MBA student at Bath University, on the bride’s outfit: a glamorous cream Stella McCartney trouser suit with a wide-brimmed hat.
(15) Where’s your warrant?’” says Greste, wearing the same wide-brimmed hat he was arrested in.
(16) These predicted increases in risk, resulting from greater solar ultraviolet exposure, can be offset by adopting changes to behaviour during the summer months which may involve spending less time outdoors, wearing appropriate clothing including wide-brimmed hats, applying topical sunscreens, or a combination of these.
(17) calculi below the pelvic brim) underwent local shock-wave lithotripsy.
(18) Investment spurred a full-on revival of the arts scene, a gallery district and a brimming outdoor gallery of street art in Central and Humewood.
(19) Much beer was drunk, many speeches were made, brimming glasses raised to a company whose success had plainly served all who were present.
(20) The inverse covariability between the transverse inlet diameter and the brim index is weak (r = -0,17).
Grim
Definition:
(Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is the grim Fury on a rainy winter morning in Cannes.
(2) The level of prescribing of opioid painkillers – Percocet in Geni’s case – has soared, and with it the incidence of addiction, and addiction’s grim best friend: fatal overdoses.
(3) Patients with anti-NC1 antibodies were characterised by linear immune deposits along the glomerular basement membrane and the clinical outcome was invariably grim.
(4) The Mail branded the deal "a grim day for all who value freedom" and, like the Times, accused David Cameron of crossing the Rubicon and threatening press freedom for the first time since newspapers were licensed in the 17th century.
(5) ARD TV showing grim-faced FDP cadres: could this be the first time they fall out of national parliament in 60 years?
(6) It has said a better productivity performance and rising North Sea oil revenues will make the budgetary position less grim.
(7) Shields accepted that the Irish appeared more inclined to send up their grim fiscal situation than go out and riot.
(8) Inside the Islamic State ‘capital’: no end in sight to its grim rule Read more The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) militia and an alliance of rebels known as the “Euphrates Volcano” – backed US-led coalition air strikes – have seized swaths of territory from Isis, including the strategic border town of Tal Abyad .
(9) Yet, if that flurry of form pepped optimism, the injuries and displays in recent friendlies have provided a grim reality check.
(10) The dark, luxury air in the silent bedrooms of empty riverside apartments, their identical curving blocks clustered in threes and fours, grim and silent as gill slits, will be theirs.
(11) Chinese media and bloggers published images of three young children in blue school uniforms lying dead on the pavement – a grim echo of the high casualty rate at poorly constructed schools in Sichuan in 2008, when a bigger quake killed 87,000 people.
(12) The BCC survey represents a turnround from the end of last year, when it was predicting stagflation – a grim combination of zero growth and inflation.
(13) The human rights organisation, which has produced a series of in-depth reports detailing the grim working conditions of many of the 1.5 million migrant labourers engaged in a huge construction boom, said “little has changed in law, policy and practice” since the government promised limited reforms 12 months ago.
(14) Carcinoma of unknown histogenesis or primary site is an increasingly recognized syndrome regarded by most physicians as having a grim prognosis.
(15) "There are times when a swingeing sentence can act as a deterrent", as the judge at the trial was grimly to pronounce.
(16) The footage beamed back from the liberated districts of Ramadi is grim: a ghost town littered with debris and smashed concrete, destroyed storefronts, plumes of smoke, the sound of gunfire piercing the air as Iraqi soldiers speak on camera.
(17) It was my shortcomings as coach that caused this result,” said a grim-faced South Korea manager, Hong Myung-bo, who spent most of the post-match press-conference scratching his nose in apparent distress and deflecting comments about whether he would stay on as manager until next year’s Asian Cup.
(18) After grim news on the recession, at least one thing should become clearer: going back to where we were is no longer an option.
(19) While deplorable and to a degree self-defeating, this insouciant defiance also makes a grim kind of sense, both historically and reinforced by recent events.
(20) The entity carries a grim visual prognosis, as all ten eyes initially had no perception of light; improvement to light perception occurred in one instance.