"put it briefly" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when you are trying to succinctly summarize a point or present a concise conclusion. For example, "My team works best when everyone is on the same page. To put it briefly, clear communication is essential to our success."
To put it briefly, and somewhat too simply, a certain hope died, a certain respect for white Americans faded.
To put it briefly, making beer requires breaking down grain starches into sugars, flavoring the resulting sweet liquid with hop flowers, then fermenting it with yeast.
To put it briefly, I am beginning to understand something about America, but I have not got the time even to think never mind writing.
To put it briefly, the solution is to establish a Palestinian state in pre-1967 bordexchangehange some territory to keep major blocs of settlements within Israel; divide Jerusalem; and allow for a very limited return of Palestinian refugees to Israel.
"To put it briefly," he told Simone de Beauvoir some time later, "in philosophy, writing consisted of analysing my ideas; and a tube of corydrane meant 'these ideas will be analysed in the next two days.' " Or, as the Ramones used to put it, Gabba Gabba Hey.
It is usually incomplete, distorted or misleading, or to put it briefly, imperfect.
Or, to put it more briefly, out of four factual assertions in the UKIP press release, four are incorrect.
Hussain Fathil, 35, trying to guide his 1991 Opel through the logjam, put it more briefly: "It pulls your heart apart".
Once the frittata is golden underneath – mostly set but with a wobbly top, which takes about 10 minutes – you can either serve as is, or, if you want it crisper, either finish the frittata in the oven, or invert twice on to a plate and put it back briefly in the pan to cook the other side.
"What we are going to do," wrote Ross, "about the art column (to put it bluntly and briefly) is let Lewis Mumford do occasional [essays] on art, along with his architectural pieces.
"Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, and accurately so they will be guided by its light".
