Sentences with brevity
brev·i·ty
B b - The bonus of this homely soup is the brevity of its cooking time. [+ of]
- Thanks to Global Positioning Systems we can see that Europe and North America are parting at about the speed a fingernail grows—roughly two yards in a human lifetime. If you were prepared to wait long enough, you could ride from Los Angeles all the way up to San Francisco. It is only the brevity of lifetimes that keeps us from appreciating the changes.
- A good technical writing style will now be defined as a style possessing clarity, brevity, and variety.
- The brevity of human life.
- Ironically, it is long-winded Polonius in Shakespeare's Hamlet who famously says that brevity is the soul of wit.