"brief" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He returned a year ago to face the charges against him, and after a brief imprisonment was freed on bail.
- A warrant from that court reached him at Boston, but after a brief imprisonment he was allowed to remain unmolested.
- I was cold myself, and my feet hurt from their brief imprisonment in pumps.
- Even a brief imprisonment might have inspired more public officials to comply with the law and legitimate inquiries from Congress.
- After a brief imprisonment he was ransomed and returned to England in time for the summer campaign of 1335.
- After brief imprisonment, he was allowed to return to Georgia.
- This led to his brief imprisonment in 1535.
- After a brief imprisonment, Higgins was exchanged on October 16, 1862.
- His uncle could've saved him again, but he was twenty-five at the time and ready for a brief imprisonment.
- Other trials produced, by one report, some 5,000 to 6,000 convictions, and penalties ranged from brief imprisonment to death.
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