After the exchange, students have a brief reprieve to enjoy the game with their fellow comrades.

A waiter came up and offered her a brief reprieve.

It is a brief reprieve in a story that will turn harsher.

I should be grateful for even a brief reprieve, she thought, shaking her head.

The decision gave recording companies a brief reprieve from the inevitable.

Besides, this brief reprieve would let her store up more memories of him for the years ahead.

After the brief reprieve, she thought, she would be taken farther away and shot.

Being sent to the prison was likely to be at best only a brief reprieve, as conditions there were brutal.

Three hundred feet from the ground he got a brief reprieve.

Some market analysts, however, saw yesterday's gains as nothing more than a brief reprieve.