Use "brace up" in a sentence

1. words before you brace up to listen to this most interesting

2. A few days later after his visit to Toni’s gravesite, he pays a courtesy call to his mother-in-law who immediately greets him with a warm embrace upon entering her home

3. Than appeared at the door, tense, as though Pete’s embrace upset him

4. I tried for a second or two to brace up and out with it, but I warn't man enough—hadn't the spunk of a rabbit

5. "Under the weather, Captain?" she said "Brace up, now

6. Just brace up and get yourself ready

7. I need Archie to run “Brace up,” said Rhett, and there was a hard, faintly jeering note in his voice

8. "Be dumb, man! Stand by the braces! Hard down the helm!—brace up! Shiver her!—shiver her!—So; well that! Boats, boats!"

9. Lament, embrace upon that grave