BRIEF in a Sentence
Learn BRIEF from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
196 example sentences for BRIEF, such as:
1. A brief history of Western culture.
2. There was a brief pause in the conversation.
3. I had a brief encounter with an angry client.
4. To be brief, we can't accept such harsh terms.
5. We stopped by Alice's house for a brief visit.
2. There was a brief pause in the conversation.
3. I had a brief encounter with an angry client.
4. To be brief, we can't accept such harsh terms.
5. We stopped by Alice's house for a brief visit.
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Meanings and Examples of BRIEF
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brief
n. a document stating the facts and points of law of a client's case
n. a condensed written summary or abstract
Classic Sentence: (150 in 11 pages)
1 There was a brief interval of whispering, and Pork entered, his usual dignity gone, his eyes rolling and his teeth a-gleam.
2 Her recent graduation from a skinny pickaninny with brief skirts and stiffly wrapped braids into the dignity of a calico dress and starched white turban was an intoxicating affair.
3 After these brief visits, Pitty always took to her bed for the rest of the day with tears and smelling salts.
4 For a brief moment she considered the unfairness of it all.
5 It came off with difficulty and for a brief instant was clutched tightly in the small palm.
6 There'll be just one brief skirmish and the Yankees will skedaddle back into Tennessee.
7 For a last brief moment, fear of a Yankee invasion clutched her heart but at the word "kiss," she forgot about it.
8 He was smiling, but in the dark depths of his eyes a tiny light flickered for a brief moment, like a small raw flame.
9 Scarlett held wobbling heads that parched lips might drink, poured buckets of water over dusty, feverish bodies and into open wounds that the men might enjoy a brief moment's relief.
10 They were veterans now, veterans of brief service, but veterans just the same, and they had acquitted themselves well.
11 Uncle Henry's visit was brief, for he had only a four-hour furlough and he needed half of it for the long walk in from the breastworks and back.
12 For a week she had not heard from Tara and the last brief note from Gerald had added to her fears.
13 Despite the fear that made it shrill, they recognized the voice of Sally Fontaine who, only an hour before, had stopped at Tara for a brief chat on her way to Jonesboro.
14 For a brief instant Scarlett saw the long hot days in the cotton field, felt again the terrible ache in her back, the raw bruised flesh of her shoulders.
15 Most of them wore blue overcoats of captured Yankees and, for a brief instant of horror, those at Tara thought Sherman's men had returned.
Example Sentence: (46 in 4 pages)
1 To be brief, we can't accept such harsh terms.
2 She gave him a factual account of the chronology of her brief liaison.
3 This is, of necessity, a brief and incomplete account.
4 Their brief is to undertake outreach work aimed at young African Caribbeans on the estate.
5 He gave a brief analysis of the present economic situation.
6 The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
7 We stopped by Alice's house for a brief visit.
8 The wait was mercifully brief, little more than an hour.
9 A brief history of Western culture.
10 I had a brief encounter with an angry client.
11 OFSTED's brief is such that it can conduct any inquiry or provide any advice which the Secretary of State requires.
12 There was a brief pause in the conversation.
13 In brief, the President plans to cut defense spending and lower taxes.
14 The report gives a brief nod in the direction of green issues before coming down firmly on the side of the market.
15 He knocked on the door and after a brief interval it was opened.