SHORTS in a Sentence

Learn SHORTS 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 SHORTS, such as:

1. I only stayed for a short while.
2. Zeena stopped short and looked at him.
3. After a short break the play continued.
4. She's too short to reach the top shelf.
5. Her husband stopped short at sight of her.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHORTS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shorts
 a.  of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
 n.  the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It had been his own idea to wear that touch of powder, and I had conceded the powder after overcoming the shorts.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XL
2  Young men in shorts leapt out on one side; girls with skin-coloured legs on the other.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 5
3  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
4  Zeena stopped short and looked at him.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
5  Her husband stopped short at sight of her.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In III
6  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
7  He stopped short, not grasping what he heard.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
8  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
9  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
10  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
11  And life was too short to miss such pleasant things.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
12  Her neck was short but rounded and her arms plump and enticing.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  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
14  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
15  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
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  Small children have a very short attention span.
17  He has a short attention/concentration span.
18  The author appends a short footnote to the text explaining the point.
19  The time of life is short ; to spend that shortness basely, it would be too long.
20  She's too short to reach the top shelf.
21  From Poiso we make a short diversion to drive to the top of the mountain.
22  After only a short exposure to sunlight he began to turn red.
23  The firm produceda short promotional video.
24  She likes to wear short skirts to show off her legs.
25  A short while ago, however, he became a busdriver and he has not regretted it.
26  I only stayed for a short while.
27  He is a tall man but his wife is a short woman.
28  In one short stride, he reached the window.
29  His short legs were not in proportion to his long body.
30  After a short break the play continued.