Sentence examples for terse instruction from inspiring English sources

He said the man had not given him an address to go to, just a terse instruction: Drive.

Come alone!!," followed by a terse instruction — "Put it in the green trash kan on the devil strip at the corner 18th and Carlson".

Stephenson had sent Scudamore off with the terse instruction: "Give him a chance and hit him only as a last resort".

Scott did not blow up at halftime either, giving his players terse instructions.

Minutes after the doctor peered into Chesivoir's dilated eyes, she issued terse instructions to Klein Drivee straight to the emergency room at Washington Hospital Center, where she was on staff.

Cal kicker Tyler Fredrickson's previous two field-goal attempts had been blocked, so he had terse instructions for the final try.

Michael Watkins, mission manager for Curiosity (formally, the Mars Science Laboratory) at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), explains that this system has extremely low capacity and is designed for receiving (and sometimes acknowledging) terse instructions to carry out a day's tasks.

The verses are punctuated by repeated, terse instructions ("cut", "clip", "sew") and intakes of breath ("okay"), as if the arguments surrounding the events, from utopian hope ("can't we just share") to liberal mitigation ("conditions of welfare / happiness unknown to some"), have been sped up into a rapid confusion.

As the succession of terse instructions and violent actions and reactions rattles out grotesquely, a history of political aspiration and its betrayal emerges, culminating in the current government's activities (Nick Brown, Blair's crafty rescuer, and Robin Cook, his belated conscience, both get name-checks).

A man tall enough to play Big Bird gives Marley terse instructions.

Her death was reported Saturday in a terse statement.