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vb. (present participle of brush by English)
Usage examples of "brushing by".
It wasn't that something large and solid had brushed by my leg, it had been my leg brushing by something large and solid, which was a different thing altogether.
Kicking through boneheaps, brushing by damp shrubbery, I came at length to the damaged mausoleum where we had played house.
Joey replied, brushing by a rowdy band of drinkers as she left the tavern.
He turned away suddenly and retreated straight across the room, brushing by people and bronzes as he went.
I sighed, and rose, brushing by him, letting my trailing hand make the first touch.
Nothing good ever comes to men like me from her skirts brushing by, nor from the edge of King Stephen's mantle, either.
Nothing good ever comes to men like me from her skirts brushing by, nor from the edge of King Stephens mantle, either.