BRUSQUE in a Sentence

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16 example sentences for BRUSQUE, such as:

1. He circled her waist with a brusque arm.
2. He was conscious that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold.
3. She began asking questions so brusquely and giving orders so decisively Pork's eyebrows went up in mystification.
4. And then I made a brusque movement, and one of the remaining posts of that vanished fence leaped up in the field of my glass.
5. I'm very stupid about studying anything, can't bear French, it's such a slippery, silly sort of language, was the brusque reply.

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 Meanings and Examples of BRUSQUE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
brusque
 a.  abrupt and curt in manner or speech; rudely abrupt, unfriendly
Classic Sentence:
1  And then pain and more pain and the room full of buzzing voices and Aunt Pittypat's sobs and Dr. Meade's brusque orders and feet that hurried on the stairs and tiptoes in the upper hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVI
2  She impulsively invited the Dillons to the dramatic association meeting, and when Kennicott was brusque to them she was unusually cordial, and felt virtuous.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
3  He circled her waist with a brusque arm.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
4  Any mention of her 'works' always had a bad effect upon Jo, who either grew rigid and looked offended, or changed the subject with a brusque remark, as now.'
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
5  I'm very stupid about studying anything, can't bear French, it's such a slippery, silly sort of language, was the brusque reply.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
6  She dropped her head; then, with a brusque movement, she pulled to the door, which closed behind her.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XI—OFFERS OF SERVICE FROM MISERY TO WRETCHEDNESS
7  He was conscious that he was brusque, and that Marius was cold.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
8  And then I made a brusque movement, and one of the remaining posts of that vanished fence leaped up in the field of my glass.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In III
9  "I said a doctor," he answered brusquely and his eyes unconsciously went over her tiny frame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
10  She began asking questions so brusquely and giving orders so decisively Pork's eyebrows went up in mystification.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
11  But she saw or she imagined that the women who had gurgled at her so welcomingly when she had first come to Gopher Prairie were nodding at her brusquely.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  He was no more brusquely familiar than a dozen other clerks of the town, but her nerves were heat-scorched.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
13  I have no time for trifles," he answered, brusquely; then with a smile, "Excuse my rudeness.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
14  That his advances should be rejected so brusquely without any reference to the lady's own wishes and that the lady should accept the situation without protest is very amazing.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...
15  There was now something so kind, so gentle, so openhearted, and so paternal in this brusqueness, that Marius, in the sudden transition from discouragement to hope, was stunned and intoxicated by it, as it were.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—THE OLD HEART AND THE YOUNG HEART IN THE PRES...
Example Sentence:
1  Was Bruce too brusque when he brushed off Bob's request with a curt "Not now!"?