"Why the refrigerator?" "To avoid bugs," he explained tersely.
"He has a heartbeat, but he's not crying," Dr. Aijaz Ahmed explained tersely as he gave the boy oxygen.
The creation of Israel is explained tersely as "the Israeli occupation of 1948," which with the assistance of Britain "destroyed most of the Palestinian villages and cities and kicked the Palestinian inhabitants from their lands".
"We can speak at length about the fountain tomorrow, after we go out and see the other islands," he explained tersely, leading us along a paved road.
— Cowboys Coach Jason Garrett sounded as if he were reading from the employee handbook, tersely explaining team policy for dealing with situations like a recent overtime loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
"Military zone," tersely explained an Israeli officer, who had just received a warrant declaring it such.
He'd been out until the small hours the night before (when his son had vanished) – "on a job", as he tersely explained to his wife, as if no further explanation were necessary, because obviously plumbing is almost like being in the fire service.
A note sent to me by Williams tersely explains that testing of the X-Jet was stopped when they concluded that "in order to make feasible more useful applications, [it] would require substantially improved performance from its turbofan engine". Winter agrees: "Even 30 minutes of flight time would be too limited for commercial purposes.
("Thick flat sole, good for riding," one of the guys explained to me, tersely, when I asked why they all wore them).
He tersely explained that he had enough to worry over without having to deal with interoffice politics in Discovery's headquarters.
