short meaning:
adj.) Not long; having brief length
adj.) Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient;
adj.) Less important, efficacious, or powerful; not equal or equivalent;
short sentence:
Life is very short.
I’m short of money.
Her hair is very short.
You’ve cut my hair too short.
Their company was short of funds.
Let’s take a short break for lunch.
His reply was short and to the point.
The grass was on fire for a short time.
He achieved a lot during his short tenure.
The lions devoured a zebra in a short time.
He made a short pause and then went on reading.
The water came out of the tap in short spurts .
Father ran short of money and had to borrow some.
Her reddish hair was cut short and neatly combed.
She penned a short memo to his private secretary.
Her athletic career was cut short by a leg injury.
The performance fell far short of our expectations.
I had to cut short my trip when my wallet was stolen.
She is a prolific writer of novels and short stories.
We ran out of time and had to cut short the interview.
Could you make a short summary of this article for me?
I seem unable to get out of this trouble in short time.
She’s always short of breath when she climbs the stairs.
The magazine published a short profile of the new mayor.
The fog irritated his lungs and made him short of breath.
They have achieved a great deal in a short space of time.
My hair is much more manageable since I had it cut short.
Tensions crop up too between the short term and long term.
The National Broadcasting company is called NBC for short.
The conference closed with a short speech by the organizer.
Students present a short synopsis of the following articles.
He was short and overweight and generally fairly unattractive.
Weekend tours are ideal for families who want a short getaway.
My income falls short of my expenditure by five hundred pounds.
He leant against the railing, his breath coming in short gasps.
The painkiller only provides him a short respite from his pain.
Life is too short for us to wake up in the morning with regrets.
Gas prices are expected to continue to escalate in the short term.
She got short of breath very easily because she was so overweight.
If you’re short of petrol you can siphon off a gallon from my tank.
For reasons of hygiene, we had to cut our fingernails really short.
When his food supply ran short, he had to look for a new place to live.
I was trying to tell him what had really happened, but he cut me short.
She found the evening boring and uninteresting, in short, a waste of time.
The four debates will be compressed into an unprecedentedly short eight-day period.
It is difficult to readjust ourselves to life in a foreign country in a short time.
The two hundred and forty-seven pounds of weight have made him a bit short of breath.
Workers across the country have been put on short time because of the slump in demand.
It is virtually impossible to do justice to a book of this size in such a short review.
She wears short skirts and dyes her hair pink, which looks ludicrous on a woman her age.
She wore an emerald green silk shirt, a very short black leather skirt and black tights.
In the winter, when the nights were long and the days short, she watched the children coasting and skating.
Carol was a short, tight shouldered, emaciated woman with a high peroxide wedge of hair.
We have learnt how to condense serious messages into short, self-contained sentences.