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Example sentences for "bruskly"

Lexicographically close words:
brushing; brushwood; brushwork; brushy; brusk; brusque; brusquely; brusqueness; brutal; brutalised
  1. Her clothes were bruskly cut and bruskly worn, their very smartness seeming an impatient concession to necessity.

  2. A ferocious expression surged up in his dark eyes as he turned rather bruskly to scrutinize without hope the few remaining clients.

  3. Already England was rousing herself to welcome her returning sons, bruskly but lustily, in her way, which was not South Africa's way.

  4. He did not know how bruskly he spoke; he was feeling too much to know.

  5. Their attitude was difficult to understand until one old gentleman bruskly informed Jim he did not care to spend his good money buying a lawsuit.

  6. Never had he been thus bruskly dismissed.

  7. Jim smiled at the turnout, then frowned a trifle, for the old man was the same individual who had rebuffed him so bruskly at the depot.

  8. Quite bruskly then he turned and looked at his watch.

  9. Bruskly he pushed the Little Girl aside and knelt to cradle his own ear against the White Linen Nurse's heart.

  10. Bruskly the Senior Surgeon's hand jerked out and grabbed at her skirt.

  11. He was one of those men of force who believe that they can resolve all feminine intrigues by bruskly bringing things to a point.

  12. Then she took up her role bruskly as Winona returned.


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