Not long-winded

Usage examples of brief.

During her brief examination, whenever Dorcas glanced at the afflicted, they said she bit them.

As head of the Triplanetary Service he took a leading part in the brief war with the Nevians, a race of highly intelligent amphibians who used allotropic iron as a source of atomic power.

As head of the Triplanetary Service, he took a leading part in the brief war with the Nevians, a race of highly intelligent amphibians who used allotropic iron as a source of atomic power.

This brief abstract applies to plants alone: some strictly analogous facts could be given on the distribution of terrestrial animals.

The inaugural dissertation was, however, but a brief antepast of something more exhaustive to follow.

For a brief interval following the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Court appears to have underestimated the significance of this clause as a substantive restraint on the power of States to fix rates chargeable by an industry deemed appropriately subject to such controls.

His brief spell in the arcology refuge had shown him how little use theoretical medicine was in the face of real injuries.

The artilleryman paused for a brief moment, and then called for his men to hold.

During the brief twilight Balza guided them to a trail that led down into the valley some distance below the cave dwellings of the tribe of mutants, and all during the night they moved southward toward the escarpment and Omwamwi Falls.

The briefing officer, a commander Barin did not know, paused for questions.

BRIEFING ROOM - LATER A video image of SEAMEN aboard a telephone-cable ship showing the sheared fiber optic cable to the camera as Barnes, laser pointer in hand, delivers a BRIEFING.

I thought of the pyre of the barracoon, empty beneath a moonless sky that now and then let drop a brief weak fall of rain.

Gowachin bowing over his bedog, begging him to return at once to the briefing sessions which prepared him for survival on Dosadi.

In some publication she ran across a brief printed note to the effect that French women were just beginning to wear fascinating beruffled caps at the breakfast table.

She said a brief prayer of gratitude that the large room was empty save for a number of masculine-looking chairs, an intricately carved billiards table, and the faintest hint of long ago cigar smoke.