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Example sentences for "brief"

Lexicographically close words:
bridle; bridled; bridles; bridling; bridoon; briefcase; briefe; briefed; briefer; briefest
  1. Shortly afterward, he apprenticed himself to a carpenter for a brief time, but when the work slacked off he obtained work with the B.

  2. A brief prefatory note informs us that the desks are arranged in three rows, and marked with a triple series of letters.

  3. From this brief digression I return to the public libraries of Rome.

  4. This catalogue, after a brief preface stating that it includes "all the books belonging to the library of the Holy Convent of S.

  5. Now although a brief special preface is prefixed to each part to facilitate the understanding of it, to this first part certain general notes are prefixed, to begin with, for the more plain understanding of the whole Register.

  6. Whoever writes his name here in acknowledgment of books received on loan out of the Pope's library, will incur his anger and his curse unless he return them uninjured within a very brief period.

  7. This brief notice of the libraries of Alexandria shews that the earlier of the two, besides being in a building dedicated to the Muses, was also connected in all probability with a palace, and the second with a temple.

  8. This brief essay--it occupies only 20 pages--opened my eyes to the possibilities that lay before me, and I gladly place on record here the debt I owe to the historian to whom I have dedicated this book.

  9. This brief explanation will show that Catty's comparative isolation was not entirely a matter of choice.

  10. The rambling opening of this brief speech was quite forgotten in the enthusiasm that greeted its close.

  11. The questioner bowed, and a brief silence ensued; short as it was, it enabled Jack to decide upon his next move, and take it.

  12. As Lysaght said, when I read the book of nature, 'I let no man note my brief for me.

  13. At all events," added she, after a brief pause, "enough his friend to be able to say that you have wronged him by your suspicions.

  14. With scant courtesy and brief good-bye he mounted upon his fretting steed, vowing he could no longer stay.

  15. After 3 days, by which time water contamination had spread over an area of 50 square miles, the dose rate from the water was well within safe limits for persons remaining for brief periods.

  16. The radionuclides of significance to biologists are those that exist long enough--no matter how brief the time--to have an impact on a biological system.

  17. After a brief sojourn there, drinking of the waters, and building up on the strong diet of the sage's living words, he had given me the key to some green woods and streams of his, and bade me take them for my hermitage.

  18. Their friend's answers were brief and tantalizingly incomplete.

  19. Yet I would repeat his brief biography, lest there be any who, being absorbed by living inward, have not yet looked outward and upward to this poet of the sky and earth and the fullness and goodness thereof.

  20. One day I hope to make a home of my own," he finished reflectively, and after a brief pause proceeded to unburden himself of his ambitions to her in much the same words as he had confided them to Macfarlane.

  21. The mines lured me only for a brief while.

  22. Is it so irksome to have me waiting on you for so brief a time?

  23. Again it was on a Sunday that he sought her after his brief avoidance.

  24. They had in a very brief space of time become surprisingly intimate.

  25. To pass on leaving one's life work finished with one's own brief span is to fail in the greatest achievement possible to the individual.

  26. Matheson seemed about to make some reply, but, after a slight hesitation, finally answered nothing; he gave a brief nod as his sole response, and walked quickly out of the room.

  27. The statesman may not reckon for his own brief span; he has to look ahead.

  28. These changes are a little unsettling," she observed after a brief reflection.

  29. Her voice was slightly tremulous, but she betrayed no other sign of emotion, and resumed quietly with only a brief pause: "His father died later.

  30. Two days after this event they made a brief halt at a poor village where they were hospitably received by the chief, who was much gratified by the liberal quantity of calico with which the travellers paid for their entertainment.

  31. Hereupon he gave a brief outline of those events, already narrated in full to the reader, which bore on his first meeting with the slave-girl, and his subsequent sojourn with her husband.

  32. Yoosoof shrugged his shoulders, and a brief silence ensued, which was happily broken, not by a recurrence to the question of slavery, but by the entrance of a slave.

  33. After a brief interview he bade her farewell.

  34. During that comparatively brief period, Harold and Disco had seen so much cruelty and suffering that they both felt a strange tendency to believe that the whole must be the wild imaginings of a horrible dream.

  35. Outside New York nothing but brief telegrams or occasional letters informed the world of what was taking place, and the final Report was never published in the British or Colonial press.

  36. Here begins the Brief History of the Greenlanders.

  37. For a brief account of the voyages and of the Cabot question see E.

  38. This is no proper usage which has obtained here in Greenland since Christianity was introduced here, to inter men in unconsecrated earth, with nought but a brief funeral service.

  39. At the end of the second hour he had accomplished at least nine miles of the distance, and could well afford to indulge in a brief halt while partaking of his food.

  40. With his gun held ready for instant use in case any danger threatened, he went cautiously in the direction from which the noise appeared to have come, and after a brief time threw aside the weapon with an exclamation of dismay.

  41. And then hurriedly entering the store, Walter explained why he must reach Boston without delay, after which he gave a brief account of his misadventures.

  42. But to the veteran, this fevered half-hour, this brief chasse, is most delightful; everything conspires to make it lively and exciting.

  43. The student was in raptures, and after a brief survey of the garden, he cast a longing eye upon the woods which he so much wished to penetrate.

  44. By constantly thinking of it," was the brief reply.

  45. Even in the brief time that he devoted to chemistry, however, he succeeded in making some discoveries of deep significance.

  46. This brief summary shows the great advance made by the author on what was known about the lodestone before his time.

  47. The little flame it carries, and which looks so harmless, flashing into brief existence, has a latent power more terrible than the whirlwind which perhaps sent the tall pine-tree crashing to the ground.

  48. It was the custom of the Mormons to use the frontal bones of their skulls as tablets whereon to write brief messages to the wagon trains following.

  49. He turned to her with a look of unspeakable sadness and love, a brief look in which lay all that a son could have to say to his mother at such a meeting.

  50. You refuse a brief rest to this poorest of poor creatures?

  51. He dedicated it to Lorimer Graham, who never knew an unhappy day in his brief life, instead of to me, who never knew a really happy one.

  52. My time is almost up; the allotted period of my brief Elysium!

  53. A brief glance showed more than the habitual expression, a sedulousness--some passionate feeling?

  54. Human nature has its limit; he had passed many sleepless nights and now felt entitled to a brief respite, especially as the chart showed neither reef nor rock anywhere in the neighborhood.

  55. But he must, with strained lightness, emphasize one point; for a brief spell he did not wish to be disturbed.

  56. That was all; brief and to the point; Lord Ronsdale frowned.

  57. He observed, also, two men on the other side of the street who now ran across and held a brief altercation with one of the cabmen.

  58. To crawl to the end of the lean-to, bending to hold to the wall, and then to let himself down, occupied but a brief interval.

  59. The next day Dan arrived and after a brief time, given up to the joy of family reunion, he took up the story where the Doctor had left off.

  60. He watched her curiously as she broke the seal and read the brief note.

  61. It is enough for you that it is, and that, while it runs its brief course, it is yours to make it yield its blessings.

  62. The brief silence that followed was broken by Dan.

  63. They were young, and the cares that must be faced again on the morrow had, for a brief space, fallen from them.

  64. Then, as he swung upright, half a length ahead, with empty hands, she flung herself a trifle backwards and there was a brief struggle; but it was at a trot they climbed the opposite slope.

  65. As for me, I never mourned so brief an acquaintance so heartily.

  66. Fred waited until his master had said a brief grace before meat; then he stepped to his side and explained, that his nephew desired to see him.

  67. In the sound of music she could bear to think of her brief love story.

  68. With best regards to Mrs. Tulk, Believe me, in the brief interval, your obliged and grateful S.

  69. When this brief ceremony was over, and the great gates were closed again upon our seclusion, Rayel said to me: "I must talk more with you now, if you will let me.

  70. It was evident that his sensitive mind had taken impressions from its brief contact with men, which were sadly affecting his thought.

  71. A very different account must be given of the short work entitled 'Timaeus Locrus,' which is a brief but clear analysis of the Timaeus of Plato, omitting the introduction or dialogue and making a few small additions.

  72. A brief mention may be made of the generation of other animals, so far as the subject admits of brevity; in this manner our argument will best attain a due proportion.


  73. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brief" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abbreviated; abbreviation; abridge; abridged; abridgment; abrupt; abstract; account; accounting; acquaint; advertise; advise; advocate; annual; aphoristic; apprise; bespeak; bluff; blunt; book; brief; briefing; brisk; brusque; bulletin; capsule; clipped; close; coach; communicate; compact; compendious; compendium; compressed; concise; condensation; condense; condensed; confer; conspectus; contracted; counsel; crisp; crusty; cursory; curt; cut; delineate; digest; direct; disclose; docked; draft; draught; draughtsman; draughty; dumb; educate; elliptic; elliptical; employ; engage; enlighten; ephemeral; epitome; familiarize; fast; flashing; fleet; fleeting; flickering; fugitive; gnomic; groom; guide; hasty; head; hire; hurried; inform; instantaneous; instruct; instruction; laconic; line; little; low; meddle; mention; meteoric; minutes; momentary; mute; notify; nutshell; opinion; outline; overview; passing; pithy; pointed; post; prepare; prescribe; prime; proceedings; propose; pruned; quick; quiet; recommend; record; recruit; report; reserve; reserved; retain; returns; review; rough; rubric; sententious; short; shorten; shortened; silent; skeleton; sketch; snippy; snug; speak; speechless; speedy; statement; submit; succinct; suggest; summarize; summary; survey; swift; syllabus; synopsis; taciturn; tally; tell; terse; tight; trace; transient; transitory; truncated; verse; washout; wordless


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    brief account; brief address; brief description; brief history; brief instant; brief interval; brief moment; brief note; brief notice; brief outline; brief pause; brief period; brief reference; brief silence; brief sketch; brief space; brief speech; brief statement; brief survey; brief time; brief visit; brief while