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  1. brush, brushingnoun

    the act of brushing your teeth

    "the dentist recommended two brushes a day"

    Synonyms:
    copse, coppice, encounter, thicket, skirmish, brush, brushwood, light touch, clash

  2. brush, brushingnoun

    the act of brushing your hair

    "he gave his hair a quick brush"

    Synonyms:
    copse, coppice, encounter, thicket, skirmish, brush, brushwood, light touch, clash

How to use brushing in a sentence?

  1. Jasmin Floyd:

    I’ve accepted it the best I can, but it’s not something I can put behind me, i dread brushing my teeth. I never used to have any dietary needs, but now I have to avoid crunchy or chewy foods. My jaw gets tired easily.

  2. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve:

    We won't be able to deal with this subject by always brushing the dust under the rug, at some point the dust gets thicker than the rug.

  3. Dana Santas:

    For example, I do 20 pushups before getting in the shower and 50 body-weight squats or a wall sit while brushing my teeth.

  4. Jeff Corwin:

    When you take something that is nearly gone and you bring it to that point of recovery, it's evidence that there's an opportunity to do that and to do that with other species versus kind of brushing the hands and saying, ‘Well, let’s wipe away that lost cause,' what we see is inspiration and motivation to apply that method of recovery to other species.

  5. Sally Cram:

    It only takes 24 hours for bacteria to make inflammation (the cause of blood) in your gums, so if you didn’t do a good job of brushing or flossing the day prior, you could notice a little blood.

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