9 example sentences using short.
Short used in a sentence
Short in a sentence as a noun
Her sister saw the picture and long story short that was the last time she talked to her parents.
Doing that is simply robbing your long-term platform value for short-term successes.
A consultancy or something where you get to work on different things in different places on short engagements.
Short in a sentence as a verb
I mean, I assume they're not, given that Apps Script only works in Spreadsheet right now, and it doesn't even have keyboard shortcuts as part of its API.
This life is but a breath or, as my 100-year-old grandmother said shortly before she passed on, everything that she had experienced to that point was "but a blink.
Life is too short to do everything but life is more than ample enough to do important things, things that count beyond the mundane routines of daily existence.
Short in a sentence as an adjective
In the 1970s, I used to have to use an expensive short-wave radio to pick up Chinese-language radio programs in North America.
I'm the author of this app, and we're building a crowd-sourced network of live-updating Android barometers in hopes that we can improve short-term weather prediction.
When I stayed after class to ask you questions I was too shy to ask in class, or to just discuss the subject material in greater depth, youd answer in a very short, annoyed tone, as if you had more important things to do.
Short definitions
the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
See also: shortstop
cheat someone by not returning him enough money
See also: short-change
create a short circuit in
See also: short-circuit
primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration; "a short life"; "a short flight"; "a short holiday"; "a short story"; "only a few short months"
(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"
low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"
See also: little
not sufficient to meet a need; "an inadequate income"; "a poor salary"; "money is short"; "on short rations"; "food is in short supply"; "short on experience"
See also: inadequate poor
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"
See also: unretentive forgetful
not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"
of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"
less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; "a light pound"; "a scant cup of sugar"; "regularly gives short weight"
See also: light
lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"
See also: shortsighted unforesightful myopic
tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; "shortbread is a short crumbly cookie"; "a short flaky pie crust"
marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"
without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"
clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"
at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"
so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"
at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"
See also: unawares