Example sentences for: pithy

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

  • The Natives, rightful owners of the land, are immutable, their pithy pidginisms ("Man builds great boats of iron, but the sea is stronger") deserving of the utmost reverence ("You must remember what he said.

  • Bruce Morton, who ends each Late Edition show with a pithy television essay on culture and politics, pokes fun this week at the fatuous use of millennial themes to sell products--from Millennium Barbie to Millennium Budweiser to M & M's, the "official candy of the millennium," and so on.

  • What a wonderfully pithy, accurate sentence.

  • Running English proverbs and sayings through my mind, I seem to find that although our language has the resources to be fairly pithy, we are not as attracted to pithiness as Russians and Romans.

  • Most of these are crisp and pithy in the extreme, with an admirable precision of thought.


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