Tersely Definition

Tersely Sentence Examples

• He lowered his voice and spoke tersely.

• The three moved with her, Pierre speaking tersely in French on the phone.

• In some of his smaller books, however, he shows great powers of condensation and arrangement, and writes tersely enough.

• The common practice of ordinary collectors, until at least very recently, has been tersely described as being to " shoot a bird, take off its skin, and throw away its characters."

• Events soon appraised the ultra-Federalist judgment of American democracy, so tersely expressed by Fisher Ames as "like death.