Sentence examples for the briefly from inspiring English sources
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In a brief manner, summarily.
- He covered the subject briefly in his book.
The briefly bewitched tutor can't cope with Natalya's torrential feelings.
Despite the briefly optimistic circulation growth, the magazine's financial outlook remained shaky.
Last week, the Jets acquired the briefly retired quarterback Brett Favre, a three-time N.F.L.
But the briefly outlawed Communist Party and the KGB felt betrayed and humiliated.
Which is precisely what draws us to the door, to the briefly lighted windows.
Even a non-hit-making group like the briefly reunited Mission of Burma can draw a crowd because its songs have had a long, cultish afterlife.
Almost always, there have also been archeologists on the scene, clipboards and trowels in hand, to see what can be unearthed from the briefly exposed soil.
Good summer reading must include both the massively sustained and the briefly dippable; long novels, preferably long-ago-read classics, and collections of essays.
Weller also entertained the briefly mod right-on notion that playing rock'n'roll guitar was merely a polite way of waving your willy about in public.
There, Vignelli became a founder-member of Unimark, the briefly very successful agency that set the pattern for multinational design consultancies.
Joe Swanberg, a director and actor associated with the briefly detectable mumblecore movement, has made a lo-fi relationship drama that is interesting, if unevenly presented.
