Sample Sentences forbroach (editor-reviewed)
broach as in: broached the subject
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I am looking for a way to tactfully broach the topic of her bad breath.broach = bring up an awkward topic for discussion
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I never even seriously broached the subject with her until 1977, when I was in college and had to fill out a form that for some reason or other required Ma's maiden name. (source)broached = brought up for discussion (an awkward topic)
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Yet neither of them broached the subject of what was going to happen to their relationship in the future. (source)broached = brought up a topic for discussion - especially an awkward topic
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Janie acted glad to see her and after a while Pheoby broached her with, "Janie, everybody's talkin' 'bout how..." (source)
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That she'd lost weight, hardly seemed to be eating at all, and was really snippy every time Kirsten tried to broach either topic. (source)broach = bring up a topic for discussion
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He then broached a question clearly troubling him since he'd first come to me after my accident.† (source)
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"Has the topic of a settlement been broached?" the judge asked.† (source)
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Each time left her wanting, but she didn't have the faintest notion how to broach such a subject.† (source)
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Chacko said, finally broaching the real reason for his visit.† (source)
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This is a subject—my return—that Dan broaches every August, always on an evening when it is clear to him that I am enjoying the atmosphere of 80 Front Street, and his friendship.† (source)
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Petruchio, since we are stepp'd thus far in, I will continue that I broach'd in jest.† (source)
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"Broacher round," the engineering technician wailed.† (source)
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And even if she is unbroached as yet, I'll wager she's a mother in another twelvemonth.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unbroached means not and reverses the meaning of broached. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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But later, when he broached Nana, she dropped the knife with which she was slicing onions.† (source)
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I never broach the subjects I long to bring out into the open.† (source)
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Broaching all the topics between us took more courage than I possessed at the time, and so I didn't broach them, and so I think it was then that a new formal relationship began for us, and that was when we started to work out what to do with each other and our situation according to our notions of duty and loyalty, and after a while it got to be clear how very much we differed in these notions.† (source)
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