"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 • ...
2. run short = kończyć się, wyczerpać, wyczerpywać się run short
  • After several days, he began to run short on ideas.
  • Time runs short and we have a lot of work to do.
  • Their time is running short and they'll want to be gone tomorrow at the latest.
  • Couldn't blame the girl, but he was running a bit short.
  • And time is running too short for me to remain conservative in my plans.
  • Altogether, about 100 families told him they would run short before the end of winter.
  • We had not been in the camp long before food supplies began to run short.
  • If they were already using the hay, they'd likely run short before spring.
  • Time runs short for them, and it is already autumn.
  • But he suspended the effort because time was running short to complete a strong agreement.
3. crop short = uprawa krótki crop short
4. wear short = nosić krótki wear short
5. play short = grać krótki play short
6. clip short = zacisk krótki clip short
7. trim short = przycinać krótki trim short
8. land short = ziemia krótki land 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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