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Example sentences for "pithily"

Lexicographically close words:
pitfalls; pith; pithead; pithecoid; pithie; pithy; piti; pitiable; pitiably; pitie
  1. There was Emmanuel Schilsky, who talked more pithily than Merle and who would be the editor-in-chief of the projected New Dawn.

  2. War was assuredly what Sherman had so pithily described it, for she now sent the vender back to replenish his stock of cigarettes, and bought and bestowed them upon immature boys so long as her coin lasted.

  3. What that situation had become in the early autumn of 1853 is pithily expressed in a letter of Sir George Cornewall Lewis's to Sir Edmund Head: 'Everything is in a perplexed state at Constantinople.

  4. The general feeling was pithily expressed by an old peasant: "It's no longer a question of Bonaparte.

  5. In these words Napoleon pithily summed up his enterprise; and whatever may be thought of the means which he adopted, the design is not without grandeur.

  6. Cervantes puts this yet more pithily in his definition, "Short sentences drawn from long experience.

  7. How true and how pithily put are these, "He that studies his content wants it.

  8. They had been buried in their brocades, as has been pithily remarked, and forgotten.

  9. Here I may remark that the most faithful and pithily condensed abstract of Bruno's philosophy is contained in Goethe's poem Proemium zu Gott und Welt.

  10. In treating of what he pithily calls 'the Iliad of our age,' Sarpi promises to observe the truth, and protests that he is governed by no passion.

  11. The Richmond journals pithily stated the problem as one of "Southern fortitude and endurance against Yankee perseverance.

  12. And the critic of =Black and White= sums it up pithily as "a story which holds our attention and interests us right from the first chapter.

  13. But Queen Elizabeth, whom Knox pithily describes as 'neither good Protestant nor yet resolute Papist,' was not disposed to help any one to marry before herself, least of all her lovely cousin.

  14. These articles," as Principal Lee has so pithily expressed it, "have been almost as disagreeable to some Episcopalian writers as they were to the most servile adherents of the pope.

  15. Melville afterwards more pithily expressed the same principle in his sovereign's presence: "Thair is twa kings and twa kingdomes in Scotland.

  16. Indeed, he was more than a husband: he was, as an intimate friend once pithily remarked, a very mother to her.

  17. This pithily expresses the pernicious relation in which the mistress, dignified by the name of companion, stood in Attic Hellas towards the married wife.

  18. When Sir Thomas More asked how Tyndale subsisted abroad, he was pithily answered that Tyndale was supported by the Bishop of London, who sent over money to buy up his books.

  19. Of Whewell it has been pithily said, that "science was his forte, and omniscience his foible.

  20. In which case you will shortly eat Her Majesty's bread," pithily returned the Alderman.


  21. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pithily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    briefly; curtly; pointedly; shortly; summarily