Sample Sentences for
brevity
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    Even with each count stated with maximum brevity, in single spacing, the indictment stretched over eight feet of paper.  (source)
    brevity = minimal use of words
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    If we could establish an identity for the narrator, we felt, we might be well on the way to an explanation of how this document — let me call it that for the sake of brevity — came into being.  (source)
    brevity = conciseness (use of few words)
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    I didn't want Rufus having to face some creditor that I had angered with my twentieth-century brevity—which could come across as nineteenth-century abruptness, even discourtesy.  (source)
    brevity = conciseness (minimal use of words)
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    I have condensed some of the action, for the sake of clarity, and eliminated some minor characters, for brevity;  (source)
    brevity = make it shorter
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    "I wrote them a letter on why I was the answer to sliced bread," is how Flom explains it, with characteristic brevity.  (source)
    brevity = use of few words
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    The title of the poem is taken from Macbeth, "Out, out, brief candle," suggesting the brevity not merely of a teenager's life but of any human existence, particularly in cosmic terms.  (source)
    brevity = shortness
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    Marley reminded me of life's brevity, of its fleeting joys and missed opportunities.  (source)
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    Burnham could send telegrams, but they forced a cold and clumsy brevity and afforded little privacy.  (source)
    brevity = use of few words
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    There was an obvious utility in the brevity of terms like "H of G," for a mind moving fast, and for people trying to keep up.  (source)
    brevity = conciseness (economy of words)
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    I had signs posted all over the palace and market place which said: Brevity Is the Soul of Wit.†  (source)
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    He was preoccupied with the brevity of life.†  (source)
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    The brevity of the nightgown gave Rafi a pleasant shock, but he couldn't take his eyes off her face.†  (source)
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    In the Army brevity was a virtue beyond all others.†  (source)
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