Crossword-Solution: BRIEFLY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Briefly | adv. | Concisely; in few words. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BRIEFLY | anagram | BREIFLY |
We have 30 clues for the answer “BRIEFLY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Pest that's gotten into the cheese? | 1 answer |
| In 25 words or fewer, for instance | 1 answer |
| For just a moment | 1 answer |
| *Cheese whose rind is typically eaten | 1 answer |
| "Tight shorts," said the boxer ___ | 1 answer |
| "A law diploma is a paper I could chase," Tom said ___ | 1 answer |
| In 25 words or less | 1 answer |
| Not long-windedly. | 1 answer |
| In a few words | 2 answers |
| In a word | 3 answers |
| In short | 5 answers |
| for a short time | 5 answers |
| Soft cheese | 7 answers |
| TO make a long story short | 11 answers |
| in brief | 12 answers |
| Merely | 14 answers |
| perceptibly | 15 answers |
| Scarcely | 15 answers |
| hardly ever | 20 answers |
| Infrequently | 25 answers |
| BRIEF period | 28 answers |
| ABBREVIATED | 29 answers |
| To the point | 38 answers |
| rounded off | 45 answers |
| Nut tree | 57 answers |
| Barely | 59 answers |
| Roughly | 65 answers |
| Around | 77 answers |
| Approxi-mately | 82 answers |
| ABOUT ___ | 98 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EETAR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BRIEFLY (5)
Fellow citizens of the United States: in compliance with a custom as old as the government itself, I appear before you to address you briefly and to take, in your presence, the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, to be taken by the President “before he enters on the execution of his office.” I do not consider it necessary, at present, for me to discuss those matters of administration about which there is no special anxiety, or excitement.
Vangard, to Right and Left the Front unfould; That all may see who hate us, how we seek Peace and composure, and with open brest Stand readie to receive them, if they like Our overture, and turn not back perverse; But that I doubt, however witness Heaven, Heav’n witness thou anon, while we discharge Freely our part: yee who appointed stand Do as you have in charge, and briefly touch What we propound, and loud that all may hear.
Such is, very briefly, my view of the religion of this land; and to avoid any misunderstanding, growing out of the use of general terms, I mean by the religion of this land, that which is revealed in the words, deeds, and actions, of those bodies, north and south, calling themselves Christian churches, and yet in union with slaveholders.
Schwartz, if you have time, I would like to tell you a little about Frank Shabata, and why I am interested in him.” The warden listened genially while she told him briefly something of Frank’s history and character, but he did not seem to find anything unusual in her account.
When no longer called upon to speak or listen—either of which operations cost him an evident effort—his face would briefly subside into its former not uncheerful quietude.
Quotes with BRIEFLY (3)
Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering a tiny charge of genetic material to the right partner at the right moment in order to perpetuate the only possible sequence of hereditary combinations that could result -- eventually, astoundingly, and all too briefly -- in you.
When Great Trees Fall When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker downin tall grasses, and even elephantslumber after safety. When great trees fallin forests, small things recoil into silence, their senseseroded beyond fear. When great souls die, the air around us becomeslight, rare, sterile. We breathe, briefly. Our eyes, briefly, see witha hurtful clarity. Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind wordsunsaid, promised walksnever taken.…
My mind then wandered. I thought of this: I thought of how every day each of us experiences a few little moments that have just a bit more resonance than other moments — we hear a word that sticks in our mind — or maybe we have a small experience that pulls us out of ourselves, if only briefly — we share a hotel elevator with a bride in her veils, say, or a stranger gives us a piece of bread to feed to the mallard ducks in the lagoon; a small child starts a conversation with …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1948–2023).