Succinct

//səkˈsɪŋkt//

"Succinct" in a Sentence (10 examples)

Professors should explain everything in detail, not be succinct and always tell students to go home and read their books.

Why persist in writing essays if one has not even mastered the art of writing succinct sentences?

This summary is too succinct; it needs further elaboration to make it understandable.

The epitaph engraved on the headstone was a meaningful, succinct poem.

Each year, the National Archives organizes events marking the Fourth of July, the birthday of the United States of America. This year, the National Archives prepared an especially fitting exhibition. Entitled “Amending America,” it is a story about thousands of failed attempts to change the U.S. Constitution, a succinct body of fundamental principles and precedents by which America is governed.

You should give clear, succinct information to the clients.

But he made the truth very comfortable, and gave a succinct statement of the young man's brilliant beginnings.

Philip wired a succinct affirmative, and next morning a stranger presented himself at the studio.

The Derby Carriage Works foreman, when informed that this coach was to be run at 90 m.p.h. to obtain information on bogie hunting, is reported to have offered one succinct word of advice - "Don't!"

Unlike general lossless data compression algorithms, succinct data structures retain the ability to use them in-place, without decompressing them first.

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