The dogs spoke to each other in short, terse conversations, rarely more than a few words.

Brow pinching, he shifted to the edge of his chair and had a terse, hushed conversation with Nick.

It seemed they were giving up on trying to keep their conversations terse and secret.

After a terse conversation in Arabic, he hung up and said, "I can't believe it.

Two, in the front seat, were holding a terse conversation, to which the others listened.

After a moment they reverted to the fire, their mugs, their terse conversations.

Elon took the robot aside for a terse conversation before he came back to Morey.

The enforcer answered it, and engaged in a terse conversation.

Footsteps, morc terse conversation, the squeal of the gurney's wheels on the porch.

For the last several hours she had listened in on his terse, intermittent conversations with Harry Landon at mission control.