"brief" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- When they made brief incursions, lasting one or two days, of about twelve men into Muslim-controlled territory.
- This action worsened relations with the Chinese, who launched a brief incursion into northern Vietnam in 1979.
- A brief marine incursion marks the early Oligocene in Europe.
- Although a brief incursion into the city succeeded only in burning the main temple, the surrounding hinterland was devastated.
- In a brief incursion into Sulaimaniya, they captured and executed opposition officials with chilling precision.
- A brief incursion into the town of Corinth was repulsed.
- His remarks came just hours after the latest salvos prompted a brief Israeli incursion in the area.
- Until today, fighting around Basra had been restricted to the city's outskirts or brief incursions several miles inside.
- Not much interested in politics, and no doubt disgusted by his brief incursions into public life, Yeats nevertheless makes political pronouncements.
- At other times a quick, brief incursion into the branches above delayed it momentarily in its steady journey toward the east.
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