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How To Use in short In A Sentence

• A perfect mob of street urchins, loafers, shop-men and bar-keepers who could spare a bit of time, lined up in front of the Palace Hotel and watched the plaid-coated, gray-capped visitors in short knickerbockers and golf stockings puff their pipes around the bar and call for "Porter and h'ale, 'alf and The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras
• Last year the average output of rice per mu in our county fell only30jin short of the1000jin target.
• Proper footgear for the Confederate infantry was in shortest supply.
• But often our dream date is the loudmouth down the hall, our office adversary, even the scary boss -- in short, someone we avoid even standing near in real life.
• Still in shorts and trainers, I climb the ladder and open the hatch. Times, Sunday Times
• The scientists suggest that the optic nerve in short-sighted users might be more sensitive to ‘computer stress’.
• Nothing, in short, evinced to the august visitors any symptom of a reverse of fortune, such as they had been led to expect, in the position and circumstances of Marie de Medicis. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3
• Based on my experience growing up lower middle class (which experience seems in short supply amongst posters on this blog) I can tell you that the industries where tax evasion is most common are those where you get paid under the table, or where you get a 1099. Taxes and Market Time, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• We may hear about it in a very short time; the preparations are made meanwhile with more vigour than before; & we must hope that the honour of the country will be in short regained, but when Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
• In short, he becomes more credible as a negotiator and as an enforcement agent.