briefly
Example Sentences
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Not only does she seize her moment, she even briefly slips into Misty’s old “Red Eye” costume: a Jackie-esque stewardess skirt suit.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Free chips briefly flatten the distinction between the appetizers-and-drinks family and the entrées-and-water family.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2026
Cornell said that Sally Yates, who served as deputy US attorney general from 2015 to 2017 and briefly led the Justice Department, would conduct a "detailed review" of the university's response to the rape allegations.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Instead, that was when meme-stock mania briefly gripped the market.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
“My dear Mr. Harley-Dickinson,” she wrote, addressing a playwright friend of hers who had briefly and memorably visited Ashton Place some weeks before, and who was never very far from her mind.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
