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terse sentence examples

  • Terse reply, " just run!
  • The comments were rather terse; what i wanted to know was whether it worked well enough to even bother with.
  • By the time he came to write this account, he was crippled by arthritis, and his style had become necessarily terse.
  • Terse response is not suitable for a family paper.
  • The assaults listed in chapter fourteen are different, but the mentions are too terse to provide any means of defense.
  • Terse statements is no way to encourage the wider dialog that is badly needed.
  • The order made on 16th june is very terse.
  • Terse descriptions of a number of theories of trust, related to some generic security concepts.
  • The explanations are quite terse, but not out of line with the aim of the book.
  • Terse, simple style fit the short story beautifully.
  • Nevertheless, unlike many dictionaries, the entries are not so terse as to be dry.
  • Terse comments about the destruction of a great roman bath house on the site of the grosvenor shopping precinct here.
  • Your last email was extremely terse, and i thought it verged on being rude.

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