Sentence examples for briefer still from inspiring English sources

The Handball World Championship managed 15 days, and women make it briefer still: the Netball World Championships later this year will last just eight days.

Briefer still, as during those 11 weeks Henry Tilney has spent some time away at his parish, leaving Catherine at Northanger Abbey with his sister.

The core of "Ask Not" is an anatomy and an appreciation of Kennedy's speech, which Clarke calls the centerpiece of "a moment when Americans would step through a membrane in time, entering a brief, still seductive era, of national happiness".

As formidable a figure as Mr. Powell, who resisted pressure to include the most arrant nonsense in his U.N. briefing, still ended up arguing a case he told confidants he did not entirely believe, specifically on the questions of Iraq's nuclear program and connections with Al Qaeda.

The ousting of the Taliban (though not what followed it) had the merit of being well executed and mercifully brief, yet still there was a price to pay.

Several brief stills showed him in the Navy during WWII.

The new limit is somehow too long to be brief, and still too brief to be meaningful.

Mary's fruit competes with the boiled sort for plumpness but I find it disconcertingly squidgy: a briefer soaking still leaves it pleasantly boozy without spoiling the texture.

But for sheer vitality, they will be hard put to match what Paavo Jarvi and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen put out in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center on Thursday evening in a briefer but still meaty program of Beethoven.

Veterans of their brief existence still dominate the death-penalty field.

It's now just before midnight and, with only an hour's brief respite, still it rains.