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How To Use briefly In A Sentence

• Briefly, the initially adsorbed liposomes seemed to collapse from the outer periphery toward the center of the liposome.
• But the process to extend his term became bogged down in a series of disputes that had raised an outside chance that Mr. Mueller's tenure would be briefly interrupted. NYT > Home Page
• The cool thing about naziism is — yes, nazis have at least one positive — is that anyone who falls for that ideology, however briefly and despite any following retractions, can be written of as a buffoon en toto and forever. The Volokh Conspiracy » Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies
• As we talked — about September 11, the war in Iraq, her time in the Senate, and (briefly, abortively) her husband — she showed little trace of the coldness that has long been ascribed to her. Take Two: Hillary's Choice
• The position of the respondent husband may also be briefly stated.
• It may seem a paradox that the same colour should be at once so durable and so fugitive, but we may briefly explain it by saying _when vitreous pigments are reduced to that extreme state of division which the palette requires, they lose the properties they possess in a less finely divided state_. Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
• Barrow had taken an oath to study divinity when he was admitted as a fellow, and, after briefly studying medicine, he began studying divinity again.
• Walking down her long driveway, she paused briefly to check the mail in the letter box before continuing down to the sidewalk.
• Teams often protect the yellow jersey like a queen bee, but he briefly dropped back on his own for a seat adjustment from a Saxo Bank mechanic before catching up. Cavendish ices Tour de France stage victory; Cancellara leads
• Gladiator breathed deeply, taking off his red vest briefly and fanning himself with it.