Debrief is an English word with synonyms like question or query. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Debrief in a sentence
Related words
Debrief meaning
- To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence).
- To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project, in order to learn from mistakes, etc.
- To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.
Using Debrief
- The main meaning on this page is: To question someone after a military mission in order to obtain information (especially intelligence). | To question someone, or a group of people, after the implementation of a project, in order to learn from mistakes, etc. | To inform subjects of an experiment about what has happened in a complete and accurate manner.
- Useful related words include: question, query.
- In the example corpus, debrief often appears in combinations such as: to debrief, the debrief, debrief with.
Context around Debrief
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 12 start, 5 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 16 statements, 4 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Debrief
- In this selection, "debrief" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, daily, postcoital, hot, remarking, report and event stand out and add context to how "debrief" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a budget debrief event today and a hot debrief. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "debrief" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with debrief
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Now to debrief and get ready for Quali day. (9 words)
Carmichael sucks the toes of a casual hookup during a postcoital debrief. (12 words)
ARLnow Daily Debrief for Jan 11, 2023 Morning Poll: No more snow days? (13 words)
Speaking at a budget debrief event today, the think tank's chair Paul Johnson said the chancellor got a “hospital pass” from the last government, but her high-tax, high-spend and big-borrowing budget has little in it to boost growth over this parliament. (45 words)
When his Arrow McLaren Racing team tries to debrief at the track, fans of the 25-year-old Mexican gather outside the team transporter and are so raucous that teammate Alexander Rossi said the meetings have to be halted. (39 words)
Chouteau bubbled over with enthusiasm during the debrief, remarking, “When our designers said that in the YF-17 they were going to give the airplane back to the pilot, they meant it. (32 words)
ARLnow Daily Debrief for Dec 27, 2023 Morning Poll: What are you most looking forward to in the first days of the new year? (24 words)
ARLnow Daily Debrief for Jan 11, 2023 Morning Poll: No more snow days? (13 words)
The Debrief with Conn Carroll: What are the takeaways from Hunter Biden’s collapsed plea deal? (16 words)
Example sentences (20)
ARLnow Daily Debrief for Dec 27, 2023 Morning Poll: What are you most looking forward to in the first days of the new year?
ARLnow Daily Debrief for Jan 11, 2023 Morning Poll: No more snow days?
At Monday’s district board meeting, Sullivan delivered a debrief of the conference and shared his experiences.
Elated, Remi and Eden go to debrief over pizza – but they cross paths with Jacob, who seems to be on a mission to wind Remi up.
Every week, we’ll debrief the week’s new episode of Season 4 to determine which queens are riding high, and which need she-mergency care.
He said: "Tomorrow morning we will go in and debrief that and then our focus the rest of Monday and Tuesday will be on Wednesday night.
In a debrief from the party, Cassidy also reveals she was into Ken and that they will probably see each other again.
Kate says it was a cathartic exercise, which she used to debrief and unpack what had happened.
Now to debrief and get ready for Quali day.
Puckett said they would debrief the night after whatever sorority event they had attended and even discuss the smallest, seemingly insignificant things like what they had done or eaten that day.
The Debrief with Conn Carroll: What are the takeaways from Hunter Biden’s collapsed plea deal?
The Debrief with Hugo Gurdon: Why do Democrats keep testing the limits of federal power?
Carmichael sucks the toes of a casual hookup during a postcoital debrief.
Chouteau bubbled over with enthusiasm during the debrief, remarking, “When our designers said that in the YF-17 they were going to give the airplane back to the pilot, they meant it.
Immediately after her death – after lengthy efforts performing CPR – the guards held what they called a “hot debrief”.
Representative of the applicant, Simon Taylor, told those present about a debrief report which referred to "traffic management" and "noise on the Sunday".
Speaking at a budget debrief event today, the think tank's chair Paul Johnson said the chancellor got a “hospital pass” from the last government, but her high-tax, high-spend and big-borrowing budget has little in it to boost growth over this parliament.
This doco is a must-see for fans both old and new — see you on TikTok for a debrief.
When his Arrow McLaren Racing team tries to debrief at the track, fans of the 25-year-old Mexican gather outside the team transporter and are so raucous that teammate Alexander Rossi said the meetings have to be halted.
Act Snr Sgt Gray said a post-search debrief would look at why Ms Chen did not respond or make her way towards the sound of helicopters and searchers calling her name.
Common combinations with debrief
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- to debrief 5×
- the debrief 5×
- debrief with 4×
- daily debrief 2×
- debrief for 2×
- debrief of 2×
- debrief the 2×
- and debrief 2×
- in debrief 2×
- debrief from 2×