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How to pronounce brow in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms eyebrow, supercilium
Type of hair
Type Words
Synonyms forehead
Type of lineament, feature
Type Words
Synonyms hilltop
Type of peak, summit, tip, top, crest, crown


the sun set behind the brow of distant hills.

Examples of brow

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A powder will give the illusion of a fuller looking brow by filling in any gaps.
From the suntimes.com
Adam Sandler plays Jack, right, and his twin Jill in his latest low-brow comedy.
From the kentucky.com
Your head is pounding, and no Botox in the world will smooth your furrowed brow.
From the ocregister.com
Have you ever tried to paint a green eyeshade on the brow of an English bulldog?
From the kentucky.com
Now fill in the center of the brow, making small strokes in an upward direction.
From the orlandosentinel.com
He punctuates the world weariness of his brow with a glint of boyish ebullience.
From the dailyherald.com
For someone whose brow is so often furrowed, he looks genuinely delighted today.
From the guardian.co.uk
A glance at the Twickenham teamsheet would have further furrowed the noble brow.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
It is just trendy to do now to try to act like something like beer is high brow.
From the eatocracy.cnn.com
More examples
  • The part of the face above the eyes
  • Eyebrow: the arch of hair above each eye
  • Hilltop: the peak of a hill; "the sun set behind the brow of distant hills"
  • The ridge over the eyes; the eyebrow; the first tine of an antler's beam; forehead; the projecting upper edge of a steep place such as a hill; the gangway from ship to shore when a ship is lying alongside a quay; the hinged part of a landing craft or ferry which is lowered to form a landing ...
  • (Brows) The ridges formed above the eyes by frontal bone contours.
  • Substantial gangway used to connect ship with shore when in a dock or alongside a wharf.
  • Pituitary gland, pineal gland, nose, ears, left eye; some call it the "third" eye.
  • A gangway between two ships or from ship to shore.
  • The soft tissue at the junction of the frontalis and orbicularis oculi muscles, overlying the bony supraorbital ridge.