How to Use brusque in a Sentence

brusque

adjective

• The teacher was brusque and impatient.
• His style, brusque and old school, doesn’t sit well with some players.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 28 Sep. 2020
• But the son has brought with him a friend, a tall, brusque, fierce-looking young man.
  — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2022
• Her love poems are brusque, her poems about children icy and odd.
  — Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books, 8 Jan. 2022
• Instead, he and his business were shown the door in a brusque manner.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 22 Nov. 2022
• Busy caregivers can be brusque, and sometimes, brusque turns to brutal.
  — Sahana Jayaraman, AZCentral.com, 27 June 2023
• 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
• As her symptoms rapidly worsened, a rather brusque doctor was called to our house.
  — Patti Newton, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
• The three-term Democrat, known for his brusque manner, was riding high.
  — Nicole Goodkind, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2021
• Others were brusque, stingier with the rations — sometimes days with just a piece of bread.
  — Max Kim, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2023
• And Butler’s brusque, beady-eyed, scowling-hulk charisma has aged well.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 10 Jan. 2025
• This, a brusque opening credit tells us, can take up to a year, but the truth is that the process can go on much, much longer.
  — Damon Wise, Deadline, 2 July 2024
• There was a brusque interview in a small waiting room filled with brown furniture.
  — Joyce Johnson, The New York Review of Books, 8 June 2020
• Young, who was first elected to the House in 1973, was known for his brusque style.
  — Editors, USA TODAY, 29 Mar. 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
• The leaves have a sweet, round celery flavor that makes regular celery seem brusque.
  — Debbi Snook, cleveland.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• Ishaaq says on a video call, recalling the brusque directions from a doctor.
  — Will Coldwell, The Dial, 3 Dec. 2024
• Her manners were brusque to the point of surliness, and her tactlessness was legendary.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Aunt Lindsay's tone was brusque and matter-of-fact — much like Taylor's.
  — Martha Sorren, refinery29.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• My Peter Lawford was a little brusque — no touching and not much warmth.
  — Kirsten Wasson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Perhaps too feisty and brusque than some unfairly find acceptable in a woman.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
• 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 warmth during their joint press conference stood in stark contrast to the more brusque exchange a day earlier.
  — Colleen Long and Christopher Sherman, The Christian Science Monitor, 11 Jan. 2023
• A lot of the criticism around Solomon has to do with his brusque personality.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 21 Aug. 2023
• But the brusque parlance of police, which used to be confined to squad cars and roll call rooms, is increasingly on full display.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• The old woman, whom Benji calls his Bubbe, has a brusque and irascible manner.
  — Meghan Cox Gurdon, WSJ, 9 Sep. 2022