"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

3. critically short = poważnie krótki critically short

4. notoriously short = notorycznie krótki notoriously short

5. noticeably shorter = zdecydowanie krótszy noticeably shorter

6. abnormally short = nienormalnie krótki abnormally short

7. mercifully short = szczęśliwie krótki mercifully short

8. ridiculously short = śmiesznie krótki ridiculously short

9. pitifully short = żałośnie krótki pitifully short

For most of these children their attendance at school would be limited to a pitifully short period of their young lives.
Intellectually he had accepted the reality of their pitifully short lifespans.
Even with her pitifully short allotment of years, she felt it was better to serve the time than to stay on the run.
Enjoy the rest of your lives, as pitifully short as they will be!
Their leader sent a relay of four men after me, but their endurance was pitifully short.
The runway that they had prepared was pitifully short, even for a Dragon.
The mission briefing had been pitifully short on details, and the whole idea seemed a little less than sane to Joe.
It had no legs, but the word snake fell pitifully short.
Earth had fusion bombs and rockets which could carry them for pitifully short distances on the cosmic scale.
(Humans lead such pitifully short lives, they are forced to grow up rapidly.)