Polish English Dictionary

przelotnie in English:

Tell me, briefly, what happened.

State your case briefly.

To put it briefly it's your fault.

He smailed briefly.

Let us briefly recall an important result from group theory.

The People's party, to put it briefly, needed to leave the government before the government fell.

The speaker treated the subject very briefly.

I glared briefly in the referee's direction but he was putting on a calm face while picking his nose. "Dammit, the fight's a fixup!?"

Briefly stated, Hobsbawm's thesis is that the history of the twentieth century is that of the decline of civilization.

He looked at it briefly before giving it back.

His eyes rest briefly on Vanto, then return.

I met him briefly last year.

I worked as a waiter briefly when I was at university.

Explain briefly what someone has to do. /// I was briefly annoyed / she briefly led the race.

As a young man he flirted briefly with communism.

She glimpsed him running through the crowd.

I glimpsed my friend when I walked past her classroom.