How to Use braille in a Sentence

braille

noun
  • To cope with the changes, Sophia started learning how to read braille.
    Ryan Loren, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2020
  • The packaging of the deck also features braille on the front and back.
    Maddie Capron and Christina Zdanowicz, CNN, 1 Oct. 2019
  • Mom read braille recipes to my sister Ann, who typed them.
    Terri Milligan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 May 2018
  • The braille bricks are the latest in a series of new offerings from LEGO.
    Alexis Benveniste, CNN, 6 Aug. 2020
  • At the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the braille was too oversized to read for the blind.
    Steve Dorsey, CBS News, 28 June 2019
  • The braille on the memorial is too oversized for any person to read it, and some of it is too high for any human to reach.
    Abigail Abrams, Time, 2 Mar. 2021
  • The drama culminates in the title card reveal, in which the drama’s name is spelled out first in braille.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The performing arts center’s braille signs had been installed out of arm’s reach.
    Rebecca Heilweil, Philly.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The braille is the second controversy that the FDR memorial has faced since it was built.
    Abigail Abrams, Time, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Chamorro chooses a box of sequins, which can be glued on the bottle to make the labeling braille.
    Jonathon Keats, Discover Magazine, 31 July 2014
  • Up close, their surfaces look like braille, or code, sometimes stenciled over many times.
    Vogue, 28 Oct. 2017
  • Harris, 50, helps translate books into braille for the blind, ABC News reports.
    Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Count crocheting and braille as other skills Lima-Marin picked up in prison.
    Sam Tabachnik, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Unlike braille, these tactile letters can be scaled to any size the user requires.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 May 2018
  • There was another tree with ribbed bark, and another with bark covered in bumps that felt like braille.
    Ryan Kost, SFChronicle.com, 19 Mar. 2020
  • Karr's pole also has that phrase written in braille and in Potawatomie on separate sides along with other symbols.
    Mike Danahey, Elgin Courier-News, 23 May 2017
  • With number words, embossed numerals and braille, your little one will be able to learn in a variety of ways.
    Jamie Spain, Good Housekeeping, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Because of this, Andrew Chepaitis, Vallone's grandson, wants to flip the braille script.
    Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 1 May 2018
  • The school provided a braille display to transcribe text, a Perkins Brailler for writing and an embossing machine to print.
    Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Some also turned to the help of emojis and braille symbols to make the text more difficult to be recognized and scrubbed by censorship programs.
    Jane Li, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2020
  • In fact, the braille on the monument is almost completely unreadable—and has remained that way since the sculptures were installed in 1997.
    Abigail Abrams, Time, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Schnaus is able to lift the cover to see a regular iPad screen, which automatically translates the braille.
    Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Two baseplates to build your Legos on are also included in the set, which comes in a package detailed with braille embossing.
    Gabe Hauari, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
  • So in 1996, Gardner and his students designed and developed an embosser that could print both braille and graphics.
    High School Journalism Institute, oregonlive.com, 22 July 2019
  • Also in Chile, a group of children at a school for the blind used sound and braille to experience conditions that resemble a total solar eclipse.
    Washington Post, 28 June 2019
  • Learn about Louis Braille’s tactile alphabet and practice writing braille.
    The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2017
  • Twenty years later, Allen is sitting at his dining room table in front of a small braille keyboard attached to an iPhone that reads emails, books and writing back to him at breakneck speed.
    Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
  • This 90-minute educational adventure will teach your children about how talking books and braille books are made.
    Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2019
  • Google also created a virtual braille keyboard for Android phones (it’s kind of amazing!).
    Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2020
  • The doting dad, who works as an engineer at a technology company, got to work inventing a toy that would teach his toddler words using braille.
    PEOPLE.com, 5 Feb. 2018

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