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Example sentences for "briefly"

Lexicographically close words:
briefed; briefer; briefest; briefing; briefless; briefs; brier; briers; briery; brig
  1. As the address has been delivered, I will now write you briefly respecting the subject-matter of the latter part of your communication.

  2. The deep-sea work of other countries may be briefly noticed.

  3. I shall enumerate more briefly a few additional cases out of a great number that I have encountered in my special investigations on the entozoa of fishes for the U.

  4. Briefly she repeated what she and Ted had been doing all afternoon, as a result of Susie's capture and story, and she displayed the matchbox, with the name of Spring City stamped on its lid.

  5. Briefly Ralph told his story, aided now and then by Jim.

  6. After leaving the plane at the airport, Ted called Captain Magee on the telephone, and briefly related the results of their flight.

  7. Unique was my experience in nautical astronomy from the deck of the Spray--so much so that I feel justified in briefly telling it here.

  8. I answered him briefly that the same crew was still on board.

  9. Briefly I have to say that when close-hauled in a light wind under all sail she required little or no weather helm.

  10. The two men now examined each other briefly but deliberately.

  11. His career is briefly outlined in Sabine's "Loyalists.

  12. Colden briefly outlined, as far as was desirable, what he knew of Peyton's story.

  13. She would have liked to visit him daily, with condolence and comfortings, but she could not do so without previous sanction of the mistress of the house, which sanction Elizabeth briefly but very peremptorily refused.

  14. He told her of the professors who were there from the University and briefly reported the addresses he had heard.

  15. I have told you briefly something like what we have accomplished.

  16. Customs are only incidentally and briefly alluded to.

  17. The journey, however, which we are about to briefly describe, was the most interesting of any undertaken on the expedition under review.

  18. Returning now to the rivers of our northern shires, we will briefly glance at one or two birds that are specially associated with such water-ways.

  19. The situation is briefly this," the voice said, in a tone a trifle harsher than before.

  20. My reason is briefly told," he said with unusual gravity.

  21. I now called the other lieutenants round me, and briefly explained to them the information I had obtained.

  22. Where a subject is matter of history I need but briefly touch on it and I have therefore often skimmed over subjects of far more importance than those I have described.

  23. I told him briefly the state of the case.

  24. I shall speak briefly on this subject, for after the success of our deliberations, I await with confidence the spirit and action of this Assembly.

  25. We may, however, briefly notice the supposed references to our Gospels which it contains.

  26. We may briefly refer in detail to one miracle of the fourth Gospel--the raising of Lazarus.

  27. We must further briefly examine the validity of this explanation.

  28. We shall, however, as briefly as possible refer to each passage quoted.

  29. We shall endeavour as briefly as possible to state the facts of the case.

  30. To one point, however, we must briefly refer in connection with this statement.

  31. There is another important testimony against the Johannine origin of the fourth Gospel to which we must briefly refer.

  32. Taking the chief amongst them we may briefly illustrate them.

  33. As the peculiarities of the opening variations have had an important effect in inclining some critics towards the acceptance of the mutilation hypothesis,(4) it may be well for us briefly to examine the more important amongst them.

  34. We may, therefore, consider the point generally admitted, and proceed very briefly to discuss the question upon this basis.

  35. Later tradition mentions one or two circumstances regarding John to which we may briefly refer.

  36. Of either fact, I will briefly lay before you an instance.

  37. I will, as briefly as I may, The sweets of liberty display.

  38. I replied briefly that I had and that I would act as my judgment dictated when I arrived in Mapiri.

  39. Homer briefly alludes to the Lycians, who, at the siege of Troy, assisted the Trojans under certain rulers whose names are mentioned.

  40. The character of this language and the nature of the connection between the nations who use it, may here be briefly exhibited.

  41. The excavations were made under their personal direction, and the results may be briefly stated, without detailing the facts in support of each conclusion, as follows.

  42. The particulars of the attempt and its results, we shall briefly state.

  43. That the almost neglected sixties may have some setting, let me briefly trace the beginnings.

  44. We rest briefly and start out for a preliminary survey.

  45. We have seen what the object of detumescence is, and we have briefly considered the organs and structures which are chiefly concerned in the process.

  46. It seems desirable, therefore, to discuss them briefly at this point.

  47. The circumstance is briefly mentioned by Appian (Civil Wars, i.

  48. The duties of the censors are here briefly alluded to by Plutarch.

  49. The events that are briefly alluded to at the end of this chapter are described in the Lives of Marius and Sulla.

  50. As both these men's lives are now before us, let us briefly recapitulate them, observing as we do so the points in which they differ from one another.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "briefly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.