"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

Kolokacji: 7

1. fairly short = dość krótki fairly short

2. slightly shorter = nieco krótszy slightly shorter

3. somewhat shorter = nieco krótszy somewhat shorter

4. reasonably short = dość krótki reasonably short

5. pretty short = całkiem krótki pretty short

Which, according to this picture, is a pretty short trip.
"There are lots of people, but everyone is a pretty short drive from places like ours."
The world was in pretty short supply as to food.
"She seems to have him on a pretty short leash."
Certainly nothing the 597th couldn't handle in pretty short order.
They've a pretty short life and far from sweet one.
There's nothing I'd rather do than stay here, but she's got me on a pretty short leash right now.
She came around to my way of thinking in pretty short order.
"He also knows that the voters tend to have pretty short memories."
"On the other hand, he said if I didn't get my academics together, it might be a pretty short one."