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. I only stayed for a short while.
2. Let's take a short break for lunch.
3. Zeena stopped short and looked at him.
4. After a short break the play continued.
5. She's too short to reach the top shelf.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHORT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
short
 a.  having little length, not long, not tall
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  She stopped short, and he felt, in the darkness, that her face was lifted quickly to his.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
2  Zeena stopped short and looked at him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
3  Her husband stopped short at sight of her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
4  In the agitation caused by the gravity of her announcement he sought a consolatory short cut.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
5  He stopped short, not grasping what he heard.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
6  Her pleadings still came to him between short sobs, but he no longer heard what she was saying.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
9  And life was too short to miss such pleasant things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Her neck was short but rounded and her arms plump and enticing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
13  Only the young men retained the restless energy which had filled the whole throng a short while before.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
14  Though she recovered physically from Wade's birth in a disgracefully short time, mentally she was dazed and sick.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The author appends a short footnote to the text explaining the point.
17  The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long.
18  She's too short to reach the top shelf.
19  From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain.
20  After only a short exposure to sunlight he began to turn red.
21  The firm produceda short promotional video.
22  She likes to wear short skirts to show off her legs.
23  A short while ago, however, he became a busdriver and he has not regretted it.
24  I only stayed for a short while.
25  He is a tall man but his wife is a short woman.
26  In one short stride, he reached the window.
27  His short legs were not in proportion to his long body.
28  After a short break the play continued.
29  Let's take a short break for lunch.
30  At this juncture , I suggest we take a short break.