Sentence examples for a terse answer from inspiring English sources

Asked by e-mail for comment, Mr. Rosenthal, 62, sent a terse answer: "Yeah.

In a terse reply, the department refused.

She has another coughing fit, before nodding a terse reply.

The United States Mission to the United Nations swiftly issued a terse response.

In response to Sanders' tweet Tuesday, Joe Hunter, a spokesman for Johnson, offered a terse reply. .

He can put together a coherent if terse answer.

There is little eye contact, some awkward silences, and a lot of terse answers: a question usually yields a couple of sentences in response, rephrasing it gets you a few more words.

"I don't give a fuck what they say," is Malian rapper Amkoullel's terse answer to a question about the Islamist music ban.

But there have been many other times when Mr. Bush, who seldom holds any private introspection up to public light, has responded to questions about capital punishment with strikingly terse answers conspicuously lifted from a well-worn script.

After a first-round 70, he shot 72 and was glum as he gave terse answers to questions from reporters.

He has been a largely silent presence on this safari, eating quickly in the meal tent, providing terse answers to people's questions ("Where do you live?" "Mombasa". "How long have you been in Africa?" "Eight years". "What brought you here?" "This and that").