PRECIS in a Sentence

Learn PRECIS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

Example sentences for PRECIS, such as:

1. I know she goes in for giving a rapid precis of all her guests.
2. Before making her presentation at the conference, Ellen wrote up a neat precis of the major elements she would cover.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRECIS
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precis
 n.  concise summing up of main points
Classic Sentence:
1  I know she goes in for giving a rapid precis of all her guests.
The Picture of Dorian Gray By Oscar Wilde
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Example Sentence:
1  Before making her presentation at the conference, Ellen wrote up a neat precis of the major elements she would cover.