- comparative of short.
shorter
Example Sentences
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Ohtani threw a 20-pitch bullpen — shorter than his customary between-starts session — on Friday to tentatively set him up to throw the first inning Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026
“We’re setting up for a multi-year recovery because in the past, cycles were shorter, because you had the ability to backfill capacity relatively quickly,” Seidl said.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 28, 2026
The union said on Monday that it had returned to talks with the company and had postponed shorter strikes planned for early this week.
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
Interest-rate strategists at TD Securities wrote in an October 2025 report that the advance of stablecoins could “influence Treasury’s debt management decisions, leading to a shorter weighted average maturity of issuance.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
The train was shorter; the cars carrying the men had disappeared.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
