Sentence examples for been terse from inspiring English sources
adjective
Polished, burnished; smooth; fine, neat, spruce.
So far, the company has been terse about what it might do to stanch the red ink.
While the embassy's official response has been terse and sober – a 57-word statement that describes the UK's diplomatic expulsions as a "hostile action" that is "totally unacceptable, unjustified and shortsighted" – its Twitter activity has been anything but restrained; instead it has frequently goaded May's government.
Compared to the masterpieces of the 80s trilogy and Underworld, the novels DeLillo has published in the new century have been terse and delightless affairs reminiscent of the 70s novels in their restrictive tone and vision, yet drained, now, of any profound social relevance.
The father's response was terse.
The questions were terse, specific, well informed.
Its classical Chinese is terse and elliptical.
It was terse and elegiac.
The scenes are terse, definitive, heartbreaking.
Ritt's commands are terse and monosyllabic.
Most of the memorandums are terse.
