"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 • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 13
(1) relatively, comparatively
Kolokacji: 2
(4) extremely, exceedingly
Kolokacji: 2
2. woefully short = żałośnie krótki woefully short
3. awfully short = strasznie krótki awfully short
4. terribly short = szalenie krótki terribly short
5. painfully short = nieznośnie krótki painfully short
6. brutally short = brutalnie krótki brutally short
  • There was a muffled sound of splintering bone, and a yelp cut suddenly, brutally short.
  • Food, like fashion, has a brutally short trend cycle, as the trickle-down from San Sebastián to Smith Street takes barely a season.
  • A man strode out from the undergrowth, a great, bullish man, thick-boned with brutally short hair and eyes like cold iron.
  • It was also the setting for a way of life harsh in all its details, and often uncomfortable and brutally short.
  • The answer, Omnius, has to do with their brutally short lives.
  • He projected that the fight would be brutally short, a fistic haiku.
  • There is no cure and, without access to specialised care, life expectancy can be brutally short, with most boys succumbing to lung infections or heart problems.
  • That includes shows still running, although the average life span for new plays on Broadway was brutally short this year.
  • The brutally short horizon cut across its middle, but the central peak stuck its worn head up among the solemn stars.
  • For as long as he'd known her, Anne Barclay had always been short and stocky, with a square, determined face topped by brutally short red hair.
7. fashionably short = modnie krótki fashionably short
8. embarrassingly short = w sposób żenujący krótki embarrassingly short
9. distressingly short = niepokojąco krótki distressingly short
(10) increasingly, progressively
Kolokacji: 2
(13) blessedly, damned
Kolokacji: 2
short + preposición
Kolokacji: 12
short of • short on • short for • short by • short in • ...

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