Concise in wording

Usage examples of terse.

She could have written her terse note on paper, but wood was more durable.

His terse attempts at conversation the last few days left her pouting and confused by how to change things between them.

The scribe, who was lanky as a scarecrow, pallid from working indoors, and habitually terse, wanted to melt into a shell like a snail and politely close the door behind him.

He eventually heeds a terse suggestion and starts going out and telling his grisly personal story publicly from the podium with other members of White Flag, the Group he gave in and finally officially joined.

Commercial airliners began for a while to trail those terse translucent ad-banners usually reserved for like Piper Cubs over football games and July beaches.

The area outside the oval, at the extreme edges of the map, was filled with a chaos of symbolic little lines marked here and there with the terse comment: UNINHABITABLE.

The greeting from behind the small, efficient desk was terse and to the point, accompanied by a knitted frown of eyebrows.

That was followed by terse orders directing him to stay on the ship and hold it ready for liftoff.

After her terse acknowledgment, Harry spoke three words in a different language, and a moment later the Witch confirmed that the coded signal had been received.

I shrugged in response to the terse questions coming from all four sides of me.

During the morning announcements, Miss Don assigned a few terse words to the tragic loss of an employee, warned the students not to speak with reporters, and went right on to the homecoming festivities-the very mention of which gave me goose bumps.

On a terse command from their carrier, they went to afterburner and rocketed southwest toward the Backfires.

Pope, the majestic blank verse of Thomson, the terse octosyllabics of Swift, the sonorous quatrains of Gray, and the lively anapests of Sheridan and Moore.

Obliged to dine in hall that evening to fulfil his quota, Jack sat between a terse mathematician and a zoologist called Lascelles who was full of a recent field trip to the Cameroons to study butterflies.

He quickly handed off his hat and voluminous greatcoat to a very terse Edgewater, but was intercepted by his petite cousin before he reached the stairs.