He'd had a brief bout of depression when we were young, but medication had helped him get through it.

That suggests that a brief bout of profit-taking could lie ahead.

When she returned a few minutes later, her daughter had used her brief bout of independence to chop off her best friend's pigtails.

Adult moths are nocturnal; after a brief bout of activity after dusk, they seem to prefer the later hours of the night.

Despite a brief bout of laryngitis, her performances there were so successful that her run was extended an extra week.