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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
• 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.
• In truth it was all he could do to contain himself, and he felt that his only chance of bearing up was to say nothing more than was absolutely necessary in short ejaculatory phrases. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure