Example sentences for: concise

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

  • While this does not provide us with the most concise form of communication possible, it is a form that is ideally suited to human experience, which, after all, is why it came to be as it is.

  • Some of them are real gems: tableur (`tabular operator') for `spreadsheet' is concise, precise, and original; baladeur (`stroller') for `walkman,' although basically a loan translation, adds a fresh nuance to the imagery; best of all perhaps is ordinateur for `computer,' the French term (current since the 1960s, adopted by the Dictionnaire in 1983) meaning something like `methodically arranging agent.

  • The same definition and pronunciation are given in Webster's New World and in the recent edition of the Concise Oxford .

  • In particular, we find that decomposing the experiment vector space into a set of smaller subspaces, using functional categories for instance, results in a concise but useful description of the biological system (Figure 3).

  • Green writes: [Lexicographers] have retained their priestly role, especially in America, and especially in the world of what America terms college and Britain concise dictionaries,... [p. 359]


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