| Somehow or another all concerned manage to avoid braining each other with guitars, mic stands and various other musical impedimenta. |
| I know of a man who once came within an inch of braining his fellow-soldier. |
| In the Old Testament, two teenagers can't live together without one braining the other. |
| And I've seen plates thrown — I've even thrown a few myself — but I've never heard of one cook jamming a boning knife into another cook's rib cage or braining him with a meat mallet. |
| I am about to fulfil a great act of justice by braining you with my cudgel like a wolf caught in a trap. |
| Iranian women were braining up even as patriarchal clerics sought to keep them down. |
