- superlative of short.
shortest
Example Sentences
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But the following year he undertook his most ambitious challenge yet: setting a record for climbing the 14 peaks in the shortest amount of time.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
On Friday officials stated Krystal Meyers, 42, and her daughter Alexis Meyers Martinez, 21, were hiking on the Vivian Creek Trail — one of the shortest and the steepest routes to the 11,503-foot summit Mt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
But what followed was one of the shortest honeymoon periods in British political history.
From BBC ● Jun. 22, 2026
There is limited overlap between items produced by the automotive-parts supply chain and the weapons components in shortest supply.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026
His were the feelings of a point in geometry, existing mysteriously on the shortest distance between two points: or of a line, drawn on a plane surf act v/hich had length, breadth but no magnitude.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
