Sentence examples for i was brief from inspiring English sources

"World War I" looks at Hemingway's year-long involvement in the Great War as an American Red Cross member in Italy; as the show notes, while "Hemingway's participation in World War I was brief... its impact on his writing career was profound".

I was briefed by Secretary Rice throughout the weekend.

Earlier today I was briefed on the events in Boston.

"Yes, I was briefed on haggis," he commented unenthusiastically at the time.

I was briefing the State Department as they crafted statements for Hillary Clinton to make publicly about the issue.

"I was briefed about the situation and shown video evidence, however, not all video footage was presented at the time of the briefing," Breedlove said.

Then, last August, after years of painstaking work by our intelligence community, I was briefed on a possible lead to bin Laden.

What you'll hear this afternoon is just an -- you know, the continuation of what I was briefing a couple of weeks ago.

I was briefed on the new site by Jason Calacanis last week.

Earlier today, I was briefed by my homeland security team on the events in Boston.

I was briefed by Caldera's lawyers on that case, but I never took them seriously.