in short
Example Sentences
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She was, in short, a golden child from a prominent family, bound for success.
From Los Angeles Times
Because mice sleep in short bursts throughout the day and night, they provided a detailed view of how growth hormone changes across sleep stages.
From Science Daily
The rise in costs are bad enough, but now there are fears that a key liquid fertilizer, UAN-32 — which contains three forms of nitrogen, including liquid urea — could be in short supply.
From Los Angeles Times
“Maybe, if you are looking for an Australian Wagyu beef of a certain grade, that may be in short supply. But that would be momentarily, in a particular store at a particular point in time.”
Yet the performance is mostly one of heartbreaking reserve; her occasional voiceover comes in short, spare declarations from Carol’s diary on the latest dreadfulness to afflict the town.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
