Brain has 1 syllables and the stress is on the first syllable.
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| 1. | For the Fourth Men, the Great Brains, there was no possible life but the life of intellect; and the life of intellect had become barren. Evidently something more than mere bulk of brain was needed for the solving of the deeper intellectual problems. They must, therefore, somehow create a new brain-quality, or organic formation of brain, capable of a mode of vision or insight impossible in their present state. They must learn somehow to remake their own brain-tissues upon a new plan. With this aim, and partly through unwitting jealousy of the natural and more balanced species which had created them, they began to use their captive specimens of that species for a great new enterprise of research into the nature of human braintissue. | |
| 2. | This rare brain-eating amoeba travels up the nose to the brain and starts eating it. | |
| 3. | Football is a brain damaging sport for a brain damaged people. | |
| 4. | Some deny that there is a link between concussions received playing football and brain damage, so maybe if you decide to play football you're already brain damaged. | |
| 5. | The researchers do not know, however, whether the structure of a person's brain determines his or her political beliefs or whether the political beliefs come first and the modified brain structures come later as a consequence of the development of these political beliefs. | |
| 6. | You live in your left brain too much. Try to use your right brain to be more artistic. | |
| 7. | "You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." | |
| 8. | "Tom, a brain worm is starting to infect tuna in the world's oceans," said Mary. "I'm not sure if that is true or if I just made that up. Maybe I have brain worms." | |
| 9. | Japanese may be different from other ethnicities due to more use of the dextral brain. The sinistral brain predominates occidental vicissitudes. | |
| 10. | "Does a bigger brain mean being smarter, Arnie?" "Neurologists know that the amount of folding or wrinkling on the brain matters more than the mere size of it, Matt." "Yeah, many people have the wrong idea..." |