Sentence examples for only briefly did from inspiring English sources

Only briefly did we discuss my voice mail.

So only briefly did Mr Bainimarama manage to grandstand.

Only briefly did I ask myself: Why would they need summer sun?

Only briefly did he ever return to sustained scientific work, however, and the move to London was the effective conclusion of his creative activity.

Only briefly did they look like threatening to get close to the mark of 151 that would have been enough to take them through on net run rate even if they had lost the match.

It is astonishing to find Greece listed here, for only briefly did its political organization resemble the others, the large-scale, bureaucratic despotisms that gradually crushed subordinate entities to produce empires without political freedom.

Only briefly does Als acknowledge Beyoncé's impact on black female culture.

Only briefly does the report address what, to many people, is the most obvious solution: reducing admissions.

Only briefly does this sacrilege interrupt history's dreadful flow: the faded Byzantine Empire retreating across an Albanian river before the Ottoman advance.

Us Language Pirates only ever briefly did battle with the Hyperbole Armada, and even then, it was only a drunken fistfight outside an all-ages roller disco that ended prematurely when I vomited stale Pinot Gris on their Grand High Inquisitor of All Time & Space.

But only once, and briefly, did they lose control.