brisk
Example Sentences
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Still, there is profit and occasional jollity in brisk recapitulations of seminal events by a fluent storyteller with an eye for telling detail and apposite quotation.
And then, to step off the train after two days into a brisk Chicago afternoon, 2,265 miles from home, having never left the ground?
From Los Angeles Times
DuBois and Dickerson were part of an ill-fated experiment to bring more long-form, “60 Minutes”-style reports to the evening news format, where viewers historically prefer a brisk recap of the day’s events.
From Los Angeles Times
The staff coffee machine was doing, shall we say, "brisk business".
From BBC
My mother’s brisk voice rattled into my landline phone.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
