Example sentences for: terse

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

  • The treatments are brief but not skimpy: as usual, Room says much in a few words, and his terse treatments are welcome after the long-winded explanations of self-evident clichés one must wade through in reviewing.

  • So word processor in Japan become wa-pro, personal computer becomes masu-komi , and commercial is unceremoniously shorn of its troublesome consonant clusters and shrunk to a terse monosyllable: cm.

  • Claire Tomalin has written a smart, terse, mildly feminist summary of every fact in Austen's life she could get her hands on.

  • The editorial evinces the paper's discomfort with this disquieting story and the media's discontent with the terse denial issued by the president's attorney.

  • The Wall Street Journal kissed off 1.8 million homeless Chinese in six terse lines towards the bottom of its front-page news briefs.


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