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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    With the O.C. Bible, C.E.T. presented the Liturgical Manual and the Commentaries — in many respects a more remarkable work, not only because of its brevity (less than half the size of the O.C. Bible), but also because of its candor and blend of self-pity and self-righteousness.†  (source)
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    But when he was released he felt defrauded by the brevity of his captivity, and even in the days of his old age, when so many other wars were confused in his memory, he still thought he was the only man in the city, and perhaps the country, who had dragged fivepound leg irons for the sake of love.†  (source)
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