"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 • ...

Kolokacji: 6

Grup znaczeniowych: 3

(1) fall, stop, grow, become, make, ...

Kolokacji: 8

1. fall short = nie wystarczać fall short

2. stop short = urwać, nagle przerwać stop short

3. grow shorter = stój się krótszy grow shorter

grow short

4. become shorter = stój się krótszy become shorter

5. make shorter = uczyń krótszy make shorter

make short

6. come short = przychodzić krótki 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.

(2) cut, run, crop, wear, play, ...

Kolokacji: 8

(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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