Sentence examples for curt words from inspiring English sources

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Soon, after a few curt words, Talabani got up and wandered off to his bedroom.

Instead, soak up Scarlett Johansson in a white T-shirt and black bra, making quizzical faces while despatching bad guys with the power of her mind and a few curt words in that trademark husky voice.

Martial was outstanding and Mourinho had some curt words for the striker's agent, Philippe Lamboley, who had said he was studying the option of a move to Sevilla: "Anthony needs to listen to me and not listen to his agent.

A smaller row, about the shooting-down of an Argentine supply plane, is similarly dismissed by the British pilot concerned in a few curt words: "Well, bloody hard luck, mate...That's the way war is".Those interested in the tactical intricacies of a minor war will value this book.

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On 17 March last year Carver strode on to the pitch at the DW to have a curt word with McManaman that developed into a row with Graham Barrow, the Wigan coach.

By Leonard Wallace Robinson The New Yorker, June 20 , 1942P. 9 On the general subject of defeatism, we'd like to address a curt word to Tin Pan Alley, which has been crying into its piano because it can't produce a decent song for a total war.

In lovely Omaha, then, in a split-level ranch house — yellow with green shutters — Kay (Streep), makes the same breakfast (two eggs sunny-side up, a strip of bacon) every morning for her husband, Arnold Joness), who comes downstairs in his white shirt and tie, reads the paper, and heads off to work at an accounting firm after giving Kay a curt word and maybe a peck on the cheek.

In lovely Omaha, then, in a split-level ranch house yellow with green shutters Kay (Streep), makes the same breakfast (two eggs sunny-side up, a strip of bacon) every morning for her husband, Arnold Joness), who comes downstairs in his white shirt and tie, reads the paper, and heads off to work at an accounting firm after giving Kay a curt word and maybe a peck on the cheek.

If it is not, it is undermining what some consider its most important policy, and may be breaking the law to boot.Acting like a guilty schoolboy, the education ministry issued a curt, 33-word statement saying it was suspending examinations of teachers.

Charles Kennedy, the keeper of the social democratic flame, who died a few weeks after losing his Highlands seat, was keen to keep his distance from Clegg: a suggestion that Clegg might visit Kennedy's constituency in Scotland was met with a curt two-word reply.

When pressed by another reporter as to whether he had any doubts that Obama was born in Hawaii, Boehner had a curt, one-word answer: "No".

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