Use of shorten in Sentences. 29 Examples

The examples include shorten at the start of sentence, shorten at the end of sentence and shorten in the middle of sentence

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shorten at the end of sentence


  1. In November the temperatures drop and the days shorten.

shorten in the middle of sentence


  1. Would you shorten it?
  2. The days shorten in winter.
  3. Smoking can shorten your life.
  4. Injury problems could shorten his career.
  5. I've asked him to shorten my grey trousers.
  6. We must reduce costs and shorten turnaround times .
  7. They want to shorten the time it takes to make the car.
  8. The plane's wings can shorten for a jet-boosted takeoff.
  9. When the days shorten in winter some people suffer depression.
  10. Her father paid £1,000 for an operation to shorten her nose.
  11. As they shorten, cells become more prone to disease and death.
  12. Or you can shorten the story to hasten the advent of dream-time.
  13. In the spring, cut out the old wood and shorten the young stems .
  14. If thou wouldest live long,live well;for folly and wickedness shorten life.
  15. shorten the story by beginning with Red already on the path in her red cape.
  16. One task of plasma researchers is to try to shorten this development period.
  17. These thrusts are an expression of compressive forces, which shorten the crust.
  18. This essay's still too long, I'll have to shorten it by a couple of thousand words.
  19. It would do - just - although they would have to shorten some of the solos and adapt the range.
  20. Not surprisingly, doctors have been looking for ways to shorten the length of stay for the operation.
  21. The ruling will put extra pressure on health authorities to change working practices and shorten hours.
  22. Other environmental pressures could shorten this to nearer the fifty years required by law in the United States.
  23. The study also prompted the U. S. Department of Agriculture to revise and shorten its recommended roasting times.
  24. The company expects the Motif drag-and-drop, which it substituted for its proprietary GUI, to shorten the learning curve.
  25. Again, you can lengthen or shorten the story by including or excluding the various parts, which are mostly self-contained.
  26. The nearly completed four-lane route will help shorten the commute to the remote site, roughly 24 miles northeast of downtown.
  27. Members of Darlington Council's development committee yesterday heard details of legislation to simplify and shorten planning procedures.
  28. An early form of analogue computer, the astrolabe was primarily designed to solve problems of spherical trigonometry to shorten astronomical calculations.

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