"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 • ...

adverbio + short

Kolokacji: 63

relatively short • far short • fairly short • extremely short • slightly shorter • well short • somewhat shorter • ...

Kolokacji: 15

Grup znaczeniowych: 13

(1) relatively, comparatively

Kolokacji: 2

Kolokacji: 17

1. far short = daleko krótki far short

2. chronically short = chronicznie krótki chronically short

These children have been chronically short of food all year.
There were bags under his eyes, suggesting he was chronically short of sleep.
It would never happen, he knew; the city was chronically short of money.
Until we can qualify for public campaign financing we're going to be chronically short of money.
Music programs in the state's public schools are chronically short on funds and repeatedly cut back.
Whenever this happened, he'd always use the money to help pay the chronically short shantytown tax bill.
North China is chronically short of water and subject to frequent droughts.
Delhi is chronically short of clean drinking water and electricity.
The news was nothing Stan hadn't expected, because he knew how chronically short of money they had always been.
Like other states, Nebraska has been chronically short of homes for foster children.