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

noun

the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed

noun

accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference

noun

the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base

See also: shortstop

verb

cheat someone by not returning him enough money

See also: short-change

verb

create a short circuit in

See also: short-circuit

adjective

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"

adjective

(primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss"

adjective

low in stature; not tall; "he was short and stocky"; "short in stature"; "a short smokestack"; "a little man"

See also: little

adjective

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

adjective

(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

See also: unretentive forgetful

adjective

not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; "a short sale"; "short in cotton"

adjective

of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; "the English vowel sounds in `pat', `pet', `pit', `pot', putt' are short"

adjective

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

adjective

lacking foresight or scope; "a short view of the problem"; "shortsighted policies"; "shortsighted critics derided the plan"; "myopic thinking"

See also: shortsighted unforesightful myopic

adjective

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"

adjective

marked by rude or peremptory shortness; "try to cultivate a less brusque manner"; "a curt reply"; "the salesgirl was very short with him"

See also: brusque brusk curt

adverb

quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"

See also: abruptly suddenly dead

adverb

without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; "he made his fortune by selling short just before the crash"

adverb

clean across; "the car's axle snapped short"

adverb

at some point or distance before a goal is reached; "he fell short of our expectations"

adverb

so as to interrupt; "She took him up short before he could continue"

adverb

at a disadvantage; "I was caught short"

See also: unawares

adverb

in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; "he told me curtly to get on with it"; "he talked short with everyone"; "he said shortly that he didn't like it"

See also: curtly shortly