Sentence examples for fairly terse from inspiring English sources

Keeping his feet, a feeling in his gut, Heart in his mouth, a slow bee in his bonnet, Silently groaning under God knows what, He wants to see if he can write a sonnet: Nothing spectacular, just some decent verse, Each phoneme brooded on, each syllable weighed, The diction plain, the sentence fairly terse (To please you, lovely reader, meter-made).

by Sharon Levy Keeping his feet, a feeling in his gut, Heart in his mouth, a slow bee in his bonnet, Silently groaning under God knows what, He wants to see if he can write a sonnet: Nothing spectacular, just some decent verse, Each phoneme brooded on, each syllable weighed, The diction plain, the sentence fairly terse (To please you, lovely reader, meter-made).

At times, the reader may feel something is missing: The descriptive sentences that punctuate the dialogue are fairly terse ("Delirious and breathless, Odysseus collapses on the floor"), and one can only guess at the fun some BBC basement wizard must have had with the sound effects (thunderbolts, shades lapping at a puddle of freshly spilled blood and so on).

Terse, hard-boiled.

— he grew terse.

Terse words were exchanged.

Rather constricted and terse, yes?

The letter was terse.

The poem was terse.

Terse frank, helpful.

The father's response was terse.