How to Use terse in a Sentence

terse

adjective

• She gave me a few terse instructions and promptly left the room.
• His wife and children found a terse note that said only not to look for him.
  — Amy Wang | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 17 July 2023
• That was followed by a fairly terse note on the website.
  — oregonlive, 31 Mar. 2020
• His exchanges with Rob are terse to the point of being hostile.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 15 July 2021
• When asked what makes Lyles so difficult to race against, Knighton was terse.
  — Sean Gregory / Paris, TIME, 30 July 2024
• The eclecticism of the bill spoke to his wandering ear, and ranged from the terse hardcore of Show Me the Body to the wise-ass raps of Wiki.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 21 May 2018
• His departure was announced in a terse statement by the White House.
  — Cathleen Decker, latimes.com, 29 Sep. 2017
• When asked Monday night about what happened with the video, Toney was at times terse with reporters.
  — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 6 Feb. 2024
• On the trail, DeSantis can be brief with voters and terse with reporters.
  — Hannah Knowles, Josh Dawsey, Michael Scherer and Marianne Levine, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 16 July 2023
• His wayward path was presented in terse blasts of punk-blues.
  — Greg Kot, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
• Their voice is monotone, or their online chatting is dry and terse.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• The question brought a terse response from the German government.
  — Adam Shaw, Fox News, 30 Sep. 2023
• But as her life unfolded there in the tent, one terse answer at a time, the man in white never seemed surprised.
  — Hazlitt, 24 Jan. 2024
• The conversations have been described as brief and terse.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 21 July 2023
• The counts provided terse descriptions of what Nolan was alleged to have done.
  — Scott Wartman, Cincinnati.com, 9 Feb. 2018
• Reese, who scored 15 points and played a key part in LSU’s victory, had a terse response to the prospect that Iowa would be invited as well.
  — Kate Armanini, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Apr. 2023
• Another got a terse letter for not spraying the mold off the side of his house frequently enough.
  — Cleve R. Wootson Jr., Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2017
• After a month without a response, Cerutti wrote back with a terse reminder, adding Harper to the email.
  — Lisa Song, ProPublica, 20 Sep. 2019
• Janet has a boyfriend on the premises, too: a terse, tetchy older fellow named Wayne (Will Patton), who mostly keeps to himself.
  — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 14 June 2024
• Their exchange is terse and extremely one-sided in favor of the self-righteous Bosch.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Oct. 2023
• Iowans shift their schedules to encounter candidates in fleshy 3-D, away from the terse theatrics of billboards and cable-news hits.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2020
• The information was terse, only that Giffords had been shot.
  — Lisa Kennedy, Variety, 15 Mar. 2022
• Her text messages from London are infrequent and terse.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 19 June 2023
• When an agent from Shein wrote Perry offering to feature her artwork on the site, Perry gave a terse response.
  — James Powel, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• The 26-year-old gave terse answers to reporters' questions, and within three minutes, the press conference was finished.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 4 July 2019
• Sounding terse in a social media comment is of less concern.
  — Miss Manners | Judith Martin, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
• The Army has been closed mouthed about the incident, issuing a terse two-sentence reply to questions Friday.
  — Tom Roeder, The Denver Post, 16 June 2017
• As a result, communication with his team was terse and brief.
  — Ashton Shanks, Forbes, 25 May 2021
• XXXTentacion’s titles vary widely — some short and terse (and also in all caps), some long and sentence-like (but lowercase except for the I’s).
  — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 21 Mar. 2018
• Don Cheadle has a restrained elegance playing the sports coach as terse guru.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Oct 2024