Example sentences for: brevity

How can you use “brevity” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Three of those are shown in Figure 1, and the other seven genes showed patterns similar to those shown in Figure 1and, therefore, were not shown for the sake of brevity.

  • This may be one reason, besides orthographic brevity, that American English has changed doughnuts to donuts and hiccough to hiccup .

  • William Safire took a futile stab in 1980, opining that when the purpose of turning a thing into an act is trendy brevity, or chicspeak [!], the practice is bad style.

  • But I think that the apparent brevity, which depends in part on whether you count words or syllables, is due much more to the heavy inflection of Russian that compresses meaning in single words.

  • I do not agree that the relative brevity of many Russian proverbs stems from the fact that the Russian language has no articles and also resorts idiomatically to participial condensation by not using oblique forms of the verb to be.


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