How to Use brusque in a Sentence

brusque

adjective

• The teacher was brusque and impatient.
• Young, who was first elected to the House in 1973, was known for his brusque style.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 2022
• Young, who was first elected to the U.S. House in 1973, was known for his brusque style.
  — Becky Bohrer, Anchorage Daily News, 19 Mar. 2022
• Liu speaks in a raspy voice, and his demeanor is brusque.
  — Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2016
• But the son has brought with him a friend, a tall, brusque, fierce-looking young man.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• Heard you got fired, And worse, your dismissal was brusque.
  — Pat Myers, Washington Post, 1 Dec. 2022
• His style, brusque and old school, doesn’t sit well with some players.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2020
• Instead, he and his business were shown the door in a brusque manner.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2022
• This is classic Jewish deli to a T, from the brusque servers to the crowded tables to the decades of newspaper on the walls.
  — The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit, 13 Dec. 2017
• Now sample the coverage of the suit’s brusque dismissal by a New York state Supreme Court judge.
  — Washington Post, 10 Mar. 2021
• Staffers on the line seemed a bit brusque and impervious to eye contact.
  — Alison Cook, Houston Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2018
• The doctor was brusque and dismissive, and left me waiting for hours.
  — Rebecca Renner, Glamour, 15 Feb. 2018
• The three-term Democrat, known for his brusque manner, was riding high.
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2021
• Asia, who was in love with Alan before his death, has a hard time accepting her and is brusque and rude to her.
  — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 4 Apr. 2024
• His manner, in person and in writing, could be brusque.
  — Vulture, 6 Jan. 2022
• Others said the found him, at times, to be brusque and confrontational.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Nov. 2022
• Others were brusque, stingier with the rations — sometimes days with just a piece of bread.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• Busy caregivers can be brusque, and sometimes, brusque turns to brutal.
  — Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
• Aunt Lindsay's tone was brusque and matter-of-fact — much like Taylor's.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• But no one is harder to read than Rachel, whose first grateful kiss to Philip is followed by a brusque shove.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2017
• Many thought Philip to be too brusque, too unpolished, too German, too Greek, too. . .
  — Elise Taylor, Vogue, 9 Apr. 2021
• Her love poems are brusque, her poems about children icy and odd.
  — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 8 Jan. 2022
• Young, who was first elected to the House in 1973, was known for his brusque style and for bringing federal investment to the state.
  — Kevin Freking, Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2022
• Fortunately, before the alarmist pair have time to take action, the brusque stranger drops them off at the restaurant.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 9 Mar. 2024
• The major is brusque and asks why Schulberg presumes to be in the Soviet sector.
  — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2023
• Nixon said Kate shared with him complaints about the quality of Craddock’s work and his brusque manner.
  — Jorge L. Ortiz, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2019
• My Peter Lawford was a little brusque — no touching and not much warmth.
  — Kirsten Wasson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• The background trees in this painting are depicted with brusque brush strokes that give a sense of branches and greenery.
  — Mike Giuliano, baltimoresun.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The old woman, whom Benji calls his Bubbe, has a brusque and irascible manner.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022
• It’s run by these brusque women who are all cousins and sisters and grandmothers and whatnot.
  — Devorah Lev-Tov, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024