Sentence examples for brief but sharp from inspiring English sources
Lavish spending on the project has helped jump-start the Chinese economy twice: in 2009, during the global financial crisis, and again this autumn, after a brief but sharp economic slowdown over the summer.
On Nov. 14, Mrs. Clinton again raised the unemployment expansion on the floor and Mr. Nickles again objected, leading to a brief but sharp debate in which the Democratic lawmaker expressed an interest in trying to work out a deal with the Republican.
In books such as Figures of the Human (1964) and Rescue the Dead (1968), David Ignatow wrote brief but razor-sharp poems that made their effect through swiftness, deceptive simplicity, paradox, and personal immediacy.
The pain is sharp and brief, but the adrenaline rush I'm experiencing is intense.
Scenes are brief and sharp, and there are no stalls in the easy flow of the investigation, which ends with Frank and Paul on a grim road trip to Mexico that also proceeds with remarkably few hitches.
This period is also notably marked by a thermal optimum followed by a brief but deep glacial maximum [ 72] and sharp marine regressions [ 71].
The violet blue flowers of SHARP-LOBED HEPATICA (H. acutiloba) make a brief but delightful one-week visit in early April.
His reign was brief but eventful.
The list was brief but grim.
Preston gives one brief but haunting example.
Copulation is brief but frequent.
