"brief" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Claire had made a brief stab at decorating her home and her life.
- A brief stab on a metal strip bounces the hammer off a string pair to produce a single note.
- She paused again, a brief stab of pain and loss showing in her eyes.
- Laurence realized with a brief stab of guilt that he had scarcely given the dragonet a kind word before this.
- There was even a brief stab at interpreting the ways of women.
- Once in the night he had woken with a brief stab of flaring pain, but it had quickly passed.
- Except for a brief stab of something sharp, a mingling of fear and excitement, he didn't let himself think or feel.
- From Dughall, she felt a brief sharp stab of shame.
- There was a brief stab of gunfire from the darkness, then another.
- A brief stab of loneliness touched her, but she had expected it, and absorbed it.
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