short measure
Example Sentences
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When we talked over coffee last Thursday morning, we moved from the merits of dumbphones to intense, existential topics in short measure.
From The Verge • Mar. 23, 2016
With another golf piece, written for the Talk of the Town section in 2000, the New Yorker for once received short measure from a favoured son.
From The Guardian • May 24, 2012
And instead of going even a short measure towards healing the open emotional wounds of its inhabitants, the stark concrete and steel fabric of Wormwood Scrubs aggravates and exacerbates them.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2010
German swindlers were proved, last week, to have shipped hops, coal, and seed in short measure to French swindlers who crooked their books to represent these shipments as full measure.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a complaint against a white trader because he had given short measure.
From The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
