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How To Use Short-change In A Sentence

  • Most of us who live in urban environments have small gardens, but there is no need to feel short-changed. Times, Sunday Times
  • You might have felt a little short-changed then. Times, Sunday Times
  • Offer solutions instead of dwelling on how Indian Affairs has short-changed us.
  • ‘This body has short-changed our people,’ Edgardo Angara, an opposition senator, said.
  • When the band only played for 15 minutes the fans felt they had been short-changed.
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  • It is essential that local parties do not feel short-changed when it comes to making that choice. Times, Sunday Times
  • The guitar solo of final track Glass lifts the crowd again but also leaves you feeling a little short-changed after such a short set. The Sun
  • On a urgent -- potentially lifesaving -- global matter, the United States, recently broke it's commitment to fulfill its fair-share contribution to the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria, choosing instead to short-change it by $2 billion -- leaving millions of people around the world to die from AIDS, and millions of children unnecessarily orphaned. Dr. Paul Zeitz: Let Freedom Ring -- Now! Now!!
  • Why do the English-language newspapers short-change their readers?
  • ‘This body has short-changed our people,’ Edgardo Angara, an opposition senator, said.
  • Short people may be short-changed when it comes to salary, status and respect, according to a University of Florida study that found tall people earn considerably more money throughout their lives.
  • I couldn't help feeling short-changed. Times, Sunday Times
  • We've short-changed our fans at home over the last two years.
  • Now, in the first place, this professor short-changed his students, who pay a lot of money to attend classes at the university.
  • I think our poor, hapless men are probably a little short-changed. Times, Sunday Times
  • I would be pleased to hear it if people feel they have been short-changed or misled.
  • To be religiously illiterate is to short-change one's self and society. John L. Esposito: Obama's Trip to India: Sikhs Are Not Muslims
  • The only way the US can repay its vast borrowings is by debasing the dollar – a process in which China will inevitably be short-changed.
  • Watching her stuff the old pie-hole with white carbs leaves you feeling, well, short-changed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The crowd of nearly 13,000 were left to ponder on a turgid first half, but any thoughts that they were being short-changed were quickly dispelled when the teams reappeared.
  • Decades of dry and barren materialism have left us feeling short-changed and cheated.
  • Now, in the first place, this professor short-changed his students, who pay a lot of money to attend classes at the university.
  • With so many characters worthy of their own stories, these cabbies have been short-changed. The Sun
  • So yes, most people have every right to feel short-changed by this government.
  • The cashier made a mistake and short-changed him.
  • As there was little or no advance warning, those people who had paid for entertainment until 2am understandably felt short-changed.
  • David Joy says meetings with Glasgow City Council have convinced him the local authority is not about to short-change Scotland's athletes.
  • In a personal sense their victimhood is short-changed because it is only a symbolic reparation and cannot fully appreciate the loss and suffering they have experienced and continue to live with.
  • I think I was short-changed in the pub last night, because I've only got £5 in my purse when I should have £10.
  • If you are short-changed at a supermarket checkout point it might be a mistake.
  • Corporate executives argue that the crisis was caused by good-faith moves that went sour rather than by the desire to short-change investors. Challenges in Chasing Fraud
  • We also didn't want to short-change our fans with an uncompetitive match.
  • As there was little or no advance warning, those people who had paid for entertainment until 2am understandably felt short-changed.
  • I grow weary of people who take all the state offers, give nothing in return yet constantly whinge that they are being short-changed.
  • It's a magnum opus of a double album, too, which is good news, for if all she had managed to come up with after a dozen years in purdah were 10 songs and 40 minutes of music, we might well have felt short-changed.
  • A small Bradford charity is fighting to stop disabled people being short-changed when it comes to sporting and leisure activities.
  • For there are serious flaws in the system and students are often short-changed. Times, Sunday Times
  • When it does resurface, on the final page of the book, it short-changes the reader dramatically and disappointingly.
  • Pensioners who are short-changed by the benefits system could double their income by making sure they get what they deserve.
  • The poll, conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey, underscored the way that the irrational clustering of the primaries short-changes voters.
  • Don't feel short-changed with this option. The Sun
  • If we compare ourselves with the likes of footballers and celebrities then no wonder we look at our pay packets and feel short-changed. The Sun
  • It is not just entrepreneurs who feel short-changed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Children who leave school unable to read and write properly are being tragically short-changed.
  • Pensioners who are short-changed by the benefits system could double their income by making sure they get what they deserve.
  • Why do the English-language newspapers short-change their readers?
  • A small Bradford charity is fighting to stop disabled people being short-changed when it comes to sporting and leisure activities.
  • Segregation short-changes the students by denying them exposure to one half of their society.
  • Once again Africa's people have been short-changed.
  • I would be pleased to hear it if people feel they have been short-changed or misled.
  • We've short-changed our fans at home over the last two years.
  • We also didn't want to short-change our fans with an uncompetitive match.
  • Frankly, to provide anything less than the above requirements is unconscionable, and as a digital camera maker you know better that to short-change your customers this way.
  • An audience turning up in its finery and getting anything less would feel short-changed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Frankly, to provide anything less than the above requirements is unconscionable, and as a digital camera maker you know better that to short-change your customers this way.
  • I feel short-changed and an awful sense of injustice. The Sun
  • So yes, most people have every right to feel short-changed by this government.
  • I think I've been short-changed at the bar.
  • Few of their rivals are likely to follow, as they attempt to balance the needs of savers who are feeling short-changed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Once again Africa's people have been short-changed.
  • Fair Go (TV1, Wednesday, 7.30 pm) is back for its 27th year to help out Kiwis who have been ripped off, short-changed or given the runaround.
  • We share part of the journey along her local high street and she points to the shop where she was diddled out of £15 when buying a pair of flip-flops - she was too timid to go back and challenge staff after discovering she'd been short-changed.
  • If you are short-changed at a supermarket checkout point it might be a mistake.
  • But it's difficult to shake off the notion that day surgery somehow short-changes you as a patient; you don't have the reassurance of being able to stay in overnight.
  • Hunt warns not to short-change your tax-reducing retirement accounts at work, such as a 401k, in order to afford a cash value life insurance policy. Amy Danise: 8 big life insurance mistakes to avoid
  • Can I sue my corner shop if they short-change me?
  • Offer solutions instead of dwelling on how Indian Affairs has short-changed us.
  • My own anecdotal evidence suggests that right across the secondary school system our children are being short-changed of the patrimony of their story, which is to say the lineaments of the whole story, for there can be no true history that refuses to span the arc, no coherence without chronology. The Guardian World News
  • When it does resurface, on the final page of the book, it short-changes the reader dramatically and disappointingly.
  • The poll, conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's National Annenberg Election Survey, underscored the way that the irrational clustering of the primaries short-changes voters.
  • Maybe you feel short-changed about your childhood. The Sun
  • The kids are putting in the effort, working hard, but are being short-changed.
  • Segregation short-changes the students by denying them exposure to one half of their society.
  • David Joy says meetings with Glasgow City Council have convinced him the local authority is not about to short-change Scotland's athletes.
  • Decades of dry and barren materialism have left us feeling short-changed and cheated.
  • Can I sue my corner shop if they short-change me?
  • You were left wanting more, but above all you were left feeling short-changed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Short people may be short-changed when it comes to salary, status and respect, according to a University of Florida study that found tall people earn considerably more money throughout their lives.
  • To be religiously illiterate is to short-change one's self and society. John L. Esposito: Obama's Trip to India: Sikhs Are Not Muslims
  • I can understand that spectators might feel short-changed, but in reality people have to get used to the idea. Times, Sunday Times

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