Sentence for short | Use short in a sentence

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• My time is short. (10)
• March stopped short. (9)
• Short of guilt, of course. (10)
• Do you mean short and stout? (9)
• Make it as short as you can. (10)
• Ashurst uttered a short laugh. (8)
• Lord Fleetwood cut him short. (10)
• His glow of victory was short. (22)
• Mr. Pericles gave a short bow. (10)
• Nothing short of the greatest. (10)
• Prepare a short sketch of Paganini. (3)
• Is it short enough and to the point? (8)
• Vernon cut him short and pushed on. (10)
• His name was called, and he stopped short. (10)
• He was for a short time a play-fellow of mine. (10)
• So passed the short winter day, little spoken. (10)
• A short dispute grew over the exact number of hours. (10)
• It came abruptly, and was schoolingly cold and short. (10)
• Perhaps, in a very short time, you would be one no longer. (2)
• Mr. Ventnor rose and extended his short legs before the fire. (8)
• Short concussions, dragging him back out of that deep slumber. (8)
• She wrote another one, short and hurried, and tore that up too. (9)
• He had done wrong; had startled her, had fallen short of chivalry! (8)
• Young Jolyon felt a malicious desire to cut their enjoyment short. (8)
• After whispering together a short time they had risen and gone out. (5)
• A ring at the door cut short whatever answer he was about to deliver. (9)
• Thus did a nature distraught by pain obtain some short lull of repose. (10)
• He refused to believe in it, but the short throbs of his blood were wiser. (22)
• Evan bowed, and moved beside him a short way down the lane, Harry following. (10)
• Percy was short in his speech, and pale as Robert had never seen him before. (22)
• She cut him short with a return to her severity, which he would not recognise. (9)
• The straightness of her nose was certainly comforting, but it, too, was short. (8)
• She was rather short, with a deliciously round figure and a thick plait of hair. (8)
• She kissed his nose, and transferred her rose to the buttonhole of his short coat. (8)
• It would prove a very short sail for these conspirators before the ship went down. (10)
• Our fellows looked capable of any kindness to their wards short of letting them go. (9)
• If I could leave the earth a short space and commune with the clouds it might be best. (8)
• It was his horse that wheeled; compulsorily he was borne at a short canter to her side. (10)
• The Countess breathed a short appeal to Providence that Caroline might not prove a fool. (10)
• They met at the threshold a young fellow, short and dark and stout, in an old tennis suit. (9)
• She explained herself better to Wilfrid, when he returned to Brookfield after a short absence. (10)
• The statesman steered the despot to large tasks; The despot drove the statesman on short roads. (10)
• The third thing he noticed was a lame woman of short stature, standing in the doorway of a room. (8)
• When the skin bears witness to it, she swallows an apothecary, and there is a short convulsion. (10)
• Then came a short, square man with an impudent, loquacious face and a bit of swagger in his walk. (8)
• She was in her origin, short of slaughter, the loudest expression of the little civilization of men. (10)
• He gave a short laugh, that left his lips fixed in a queer, fierce smile; his eyes mocked young Jolyon. (8)
• Her dress consisted of a tunic of buckskin, a short skirt, leggings and moccasins of the same material. (18)
• Edward assured them himself of his being in town, within a very short time, by twice calling in Berkeley Street. (4)
• In short, Rose is the cold-blooded novice, as I have always said, the most selfish of the creatures on two legs. (10)
• Monophonic music might best be represented by one horizontal line supported at intervals by short, perpendicular lines. (3)
• Certain it is she brought her wounded brother safe home to England, and prisoners in that war usually had short shrift. (10)
• Ruin, nothing short of it, accompanied poor Berry to her bed that night, and her character bled till morning on her pillow. (10)
• The ladies cut short his needless apology to the young man for not being found in church that day, by asking questions of Tracy. (10)
• He is a square, short, brown-faced, common looking man, with clipped grey hair fitting him like a cap, and a clipped grey moustache. (8)
• The house had revealed its temper in that short outburst, as a quivering of quick lightning-flame betrays the forehead of the storm. (10)
• We surpass the Germans, who, like ourselves, have as distinctly excelled in the modern novella as they have fallen short in the novel. (9)
• The black cloud had swallowed the sun; and turning off to the short cut across the downs, Evan soon rode between the wind and the storm. (10)
• The veteran was now but two years short of the allotted span, and could survey the fruits of his long labours in Canada with satisfaction. (19)
• When the ladies were seated and the gentlemen grouped about, the Chief of the Onondagas, Altamaha, stepped forward and gave a short command. (18)
• A slight melancholy little burst; and then a louder one, followed by a full-toned laughter that fell short and showed the heart was not in it. (10)
• With the General came Generals Knox and Wayne to dine, and after a short presentation and exchange of compliments they all sat down to dinner. (18)
• There was but one obstacle, in short, to be mentioned; but till that one was removed, it must be impossible for them to sanction the engagement. (4)
• There was something frenetic in the movement of those rather short, blunt-ended fingers, as though they were strangling the thing they were creating. (8)
• Vittoria moaned at a short outline that he gave of the last minutes between those two, in which her name was dreadfully and fatally, incomprehensibly prominent. (10)

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