: giving strength, vigor, or freshness
a bracing breeze
bracingly
adverb
Examples of bracing in a Sentence
a chilly but bracing day
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Ropey cacio e pepe noodles are the star at Pasta, which is helmed by a husband-and-wife team from Peru who also make a killer mascarpone cheesecake spiked with gorgonzola, a bracing take on a classic dessert.
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Sara Liss, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
Not since John Cazale made The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and The Deer Hunter (1978) in sequence has a five-year stretch of acting been quite so bracing.
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
In this era, ogival windows and flying buttresses would be more bracing than yet another thicket of computerized-looking shapes.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The film is trying quite hard to be a bracing and immersive depiction of rehabilitation’s hard toil.
—Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
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Sara Liss, Bon Appetit Magazine, 14 Oct. 2025
Not since John Cazale made The Godfather Part II (1974), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), and The Deer Hunter (1978) in sequence has a five-year stretch of acting been quite so bracing.
—Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
In this era, ogival windows and flying buttresses would be more bracing than yet another thicket of computerized-looking shapes.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
The film is trying quite hard to be a bracing and immersive depiction of rehabilitation’s hard toil.
—Richard Lawson, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for bracing
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“Bracing.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bracing. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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