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"Shorten" in a Sentence (19 examples)
High operating temperatures shorten lubricant life.
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late.
How can you shorten this cable?
This way we can shorten the distance.
I don't like to sew, but I shall have to shorten these trousers.
Don't smoke. Smoking can shorten your penis.
The people tend to shorten their words as they speak and some of these sound more like contractions rather than separate words.
Telomeres shorten as we age.
Shorten your text.
Wouldn't you hate a man very much who could and would shorten your life by some years through the evil arts? I judge those who voluntarily shorten their own lives as much worse and more criminal.
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York came round to our heads and shortened the rein himself, one hole I think; every little makes a difference, be it for better or worse, and that day we had a steep hill to go up.
The full title of the unified system, the South Eastern & London, Chatham & Dover Railways, was decidedly cumbersome, and for the sake of convenience was shortened to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway.
Spoiled of his nose, and shorten'd of his ears.
to shorten an allowance of food
Here, where the subject is so fruitful, I am shortened by my chain.
My grandfather, as I said before, was connected with a gang of shorters, and sometimes shortened money, […]
Corn flour makes delicious pie crust, and needs less lard to shorten it.
Anne and Leslie had another cry the next week when they shortened Little Jem. Anne felt the tragedy of it until evening when in his long nightie she found her own dear baby again.
In January Jims was five months old and Rilla celebrated the anniversary by shortening him.
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