"short" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

short adjetivo

short + sustantivo
Kolokacji: 688
short story • short time • short film • short period • short distance • short term • short supply • short notice • short hair • short run • ...
verbo + short
Kolokacji: 20
fall short • cut short • stop short • grow shorter • run short • sell short • ...
1. fall short = nie wystarczać fall short
2. stop short = urwać, nagle przerwać stop short
3. grow shorter = stój się krótszy grow shorter
4. become shorter = stój się krótszy become shorter
5. make shorter = uczyń krótszy make shorter
6. come short = nie sprostać, nie osiągać celu lub standardu come short
7. get shorter = rób się coraz krótszym get shorter
8. keep short = trzymać krótki keep short
  • All the texts are 10,000 words or less and sentences are kept short.
  • The teams mostly play regionally in the regular season to keep travel short.
  • Communications with the press, in my experience, are best kept short and simple.
  • The soundcheck is kept short and completed with little fuss.
  • This has the benefit of allowing the reactor to be kept comparatively short.
  • Boys must be clean-shaven with hair kept short and neat.
  • He'd lost half his hair over the years, and what was left he kept short.
  • Sentences are also kept short and lists used where possible.
  • The turf must be kept short and because many of them grow slowly, they need minimum disturbance.
  • His eyes were gray, the same color as his hair, which he kept very short.
(3) sell, look, feel, prove
Kolokacji: 4
adverbio + short
Kolokacji: 63
relatively short • far short • fairly short • extremely short • slightly shorter • well short • somewhat shorter • ...
short + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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