noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brow furrowed
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Quin’s brow furrowed in concentration.
brow wrinkled
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His brow wrinkled when he saw us.
fevered brow (= a hot forehead caused by a fever )
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his fevered brow
mopped...brow (= removed sweat from his forehead )
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The doctor mopped his brow with a handkerchief.
the brow/crest of a hill (= the top part of a hill )
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A tank appeared over the brow of the hill.
wipe the sweat from your brow/forehead
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He wiped the sweat from his brow and carried on digging.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
black
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Dark eyes under feathery black brows .
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The black brows knit, and solid silver laurels bobbed.
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His bushy black brows , liberally sprinkled with grey, moved up and down in time to the music.
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The cold eyes scrutinising her so impersonally were deep set beneath heavy black brows , and shadowed with fatigue.
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The long, carved lips were set in a tight line and the straight black brows were screwed up in a frown.
dark
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Above her head, Pauline gazed out at the camera with composure, her dark hair smooth, her dark brows winged.
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Arches of deep dark brows like some perfect mathematical line.
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The lift of one dark brow told her he recognised the gibe.
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Vito had raised his dark brows in question.
fevered
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Oh, well, this won't soothe any fevered brows .
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We soothed fevered brows with cool hands and shooed away demons with a look.
■ VERB
draw
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The lines in her forehead were gone; relief was drawn across her brow .
furrowed
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With a furrowed brow she voices her fears: Ben might be the last of the Blue People of Kentucky.
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Helen and Ralph furrowed their brows for a long time.
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A grim expression furrowed his brow .
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Domroes furrowed his sweaty brows , closed his eyes and began praying harder.
lift
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Agnes knew that gesture: her daughter Brigitte shook her head and lifted her brows in precisely the same way.
mop
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She sat on the bed, mopping his brow .
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Once Chuck turned and grinned delightedly at her as he paused to mop his brow , and she smiled warmly back.
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He sighed and mopped his brow .
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She stood up, mopping her brow with the back of a skeleton wrist.
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The Archdeacon, to Theodora's amusement, mopped his brow .
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The Prince mopped his brow , his hands sweaty inside his gloves, as he faced the bowling for the new over.
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Damien mopped his brow , but decided not to remove his jacket, as he was wearing braces.
raise
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Vito had raised his dark brows in question.
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When I exclaimed at it, Mike raised his high-arched brows in polite surprise.
wipe
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He sat down and wiped his brow .
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He pulls on his hat, wipes his brow , spits out some quid.
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I wiped my brow , which had become a little sweaty, and took a last look up at the shadowless wall above.
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He took off his hard hat and wiped his brow , after checking for scaffolding.
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The slope of her back, the way she wipes her brow .
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Even if she'd dabbed Mummy's eyes and wiped her brow with a hanky soaked in cologne.
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To wipe his brow would be a sign of weakness, too though; he wouldn't do it!
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Maxim took off his silk scarf, wiped his brow and put the scarf in his pocket.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
knit your brows
the sweat of sb's brow
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Bread is a symbol of our work, because of the bread we earn by the sweat of our brow.
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No need to toil in the sweat of one's brow to support it!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A twitch of concern flickered across his brow .
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Forward, her Neanderthal brow juts out, spiked with lights and cameras.
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Her face in close-up, anxious, shadowy, the brow furrowed.
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Often has the aching brow of royalty resigned its crown, to be decked with the soothing chaplet of the shepherd swain.
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Small horns, like the new moon, adorned her smooth human brow .
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Sweat beaded on my brow , gathered under my arms, dampened the front of my singlet.
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The face itself was disbelieving, the stark pasted brows looped high over his pale eyes.