SHORT in a Sentence
Learn SHORT 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.
420 example sentences for SHORT, such as:
1. Art is long, but lift is short.
2. Take the short cut across the fields.
3. Zeena stopped short and looked at him.
4. Her husband stopped short at sight of her.
5. Life's too short to be anything but happy.
2. Take the short cut across the fields.
3. Zeena stopped short and looked at him.
4. Her husband stopped short at sight of her.
5. Life's too short to be anything but happy.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of SHORT
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short
a. of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
n. the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 She stopped short, and he felt, in the darkness, that her face was lifted quickly to his.
2 Zeena stopped short and looked at him.
3 Her husband stopped short at sight of her.
4 In the agitation caused by the gravity of her announcement he sought a consolatory short cut.
5 He stopped short, not grasping what he heard.
6 Her pleadings still came to him between short sobs, but he no longer heard what she was saying.
7 His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
8 His was as Irish a face as could be found in the length and breadth of the homeland he had left so long ago--round, high colored, short nosed, wide mouthed and belligerent.
9 And life was too short to miss such pleasant things.
10 Her neck was short but rounded and her arms plump and enticing.
11 For one short instant, it was as though the sun had ducked behind a cool cloud, leaving the world in shadow, taking the color out of things.
12 However, remembering her plan, Scarlett smothered her contempt and cast such a flashing smile of greeting at him that he stopped short, his arm outheld to Suellen and goggled at Scarlett in pleased bewilderment.
13 Only the young men retained the restless energy which had filled the whole throng a short while before.
14 Though she recovered physically from Wade's birth in a disgracefully short time, mentally she was dazed and sick.
15 Uncle Henry was a short, pot-bellied, irascible old gentleman with a pink face, a shock of long silver hair and an utter lack of patience with feminine timidities and vaporings.
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 A fool always comes short of his reckoning.
2 Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more.
3 He prefaced the diaries with a short account of how they were discovered.
4 He will do anything short of murder to achieve his ends.
5 Take the short cut across the fields.
6 To him I owe the discovery that even very short periods of time add up to all useful hours I need, if I plunge in without delay.
7 If the short cut to learning, it also must be diligent.
8 Cut short the nonsense and return to one's muttons.
9 Life's too short to be anything but happy.
10 It can be useful to write a short summary of your argument first.
11 Art is long, but lift is short.
12 The acquired any reason to ask you, have a permanence is only a short do.
13 United looked woefully short of menace in attack.
14 Small children have a very short attention span.
15 He has a short attention/concentration span.