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

Thus the worker has paid one high price for yesterday's technology and will have to pay another for tomorrow's; meanwhile, he has received a short measure of the promised benefits.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I can see how she can cheat him givin' him short measure if she likes, but I can't see how he can cheat her gettin' over measure."

From Uncle Rutherford's Nieces A Story for Girls by Mathews, Joanna H. (Joanna Hooe)