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vb. (en-third-person singularbring upon)

Usage examples of "brings upon".

The images are dispelled with the second blow and the rush of darkness it brings upon him.

I will not have them do so until I have your word that you will help protect them from any dangers this brings upon them.

After glimpsing Prince Tristan among the disgraced of the castle, Beauty, in a moment of seemingly inexplicable rebellion, brings upon herself the very same punishment destined for Tristan: to be sent away from the voluptuous Court to the degradation of harsh labor in the nearby village.

And it is with this rod that Niall kills a death spider, and so brings upon his family -- and upon Kazak's underground city -- the wrath of the Spider Lord himself.

Look,' sez I, 'at the disgrace he brings upon a high-toned, fash'nable girl, at whose side he's walked and danced, and passed rings, and sentiments, and bokays in the changes o' the cotillion and the mizzourka.

Under those sheltering roofs, to be sure, lay hidden all the miseries and thwarted passions which humanity brings upon itself: drugs, alcoholism, adultery, hate, frustration.

I need not recur to the possible historical connection of either of these last forms of liability with the noxoe deditio, because, whether that origin is made out or not, the policy of the rule has been accepted as sound, and carried further in England within the last few years by the doctrine that a man who brings upon his land and keeps there anything likely to do mischief if it escape, must keep it in at his peril.