How to Use cut short in a Sentence

cut short

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  • Their long hair, an important part of their identity and culture, was cut short.
    Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 1 Nov. 2024
  • But the celebration was cut short when a replay showed that Corley dropped the ball before crossing the goal line.
    Paulina Dedaj, Fox News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • His 2020 season with the Browns was cut short with a torn ACL.
    David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 23 July 2024
  • The talks were cut short, and both sides blamed each other for the setbacks.
    Chris Massaro, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2023
  • The groundbreaking was moved up and the party was cut short.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • The princess was slender, dressed in a loose T-shirt and joggers, and her dark curls were cut short.
    Heidi Blake, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2024
  • Now, all the charm and effort that made this series so great has been cut short.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Just five days later, Lisa Marie's third act was cut short.
    Brianne Tracy, Peoplemag, 17 Jan. 2023
  • Her visit was cut short: A group of Navajo landowners blocked the road to the canyon, protesting the ban.
    Jack Herrera, Los Angeles Times, 3 Jan. 2024
  • His 2022 season was cut short due to a torn Achilles tendon.
    Jon Haworth, ABC News, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Those efforts were, in the short term, cut short by a Delaware judge.
    Rohan Goswami, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
  • But any plans for more gigs were cut short when Betts suffered a minor stroke in 2018.
    David Browne, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2024
  • The injury cut short one of the strongest stretches of Maye’s young career.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 27 Oct. 2024
  • It was cut short when Pasqualini received a phone call.
    Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
  • O’Rourke’s life was tragically cut short at the age of 12.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 12 May 2024
  • There is a palpable fear that their own progress–and that of their children–will be cut short.
    Janet Murguía, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
  • It's been more than 16 years since Brittany McGlone’s life was cut short.
    Corin Cesaric, Peoplemag, 4 Sep. 2023
  • But nine days before his wife and daughters were set to join him, a shooting cut short their dream.
    Emily Davies, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Julia was muscular and petite, with a sweep of black hair cut short as a boy’s.
    Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Their island idyll is cut short by tragedy, which coincides with a cholera outbreak in the city.
    David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024
  • Queen’s playing time was cut short in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s final.
    Sam Cohn, Baltimore Sun, 12 Aug. 2024
  • Their journey through the mountains is cut short by a crash, which instigates a broken heart and the first song-and-dance number of the film.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Feb. 2024
  • At 30, his life was cut short: he was shot and killed in the woods of rural Sonoma County by a white man who claimed self-defense.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The spacecraft’s 2019 test flight had to be cut short due to a software issue that prevented docking at the ISS.
    Ellen Ioanes, Vox, 31 July 2024
  • Yet, as the minutes, weeks and months tick by, the memory of a life cut short has grown stronger in the minds of those who knew Norman as well as those who did not.
    Ethan Ehrenhaft, Baltimore Sun, 27 June 2023
  • Because of the delay, Moss had to cut short his final minutes with Hancock.
    Emma Goldberg Desiree Rios, New York Times, 21 Jan. 2024
  • While his time here with us was cut short, his memory will live on strong and forever.
    Tommy Cummings, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • The slight, lithe Lamb had enormous eyes, a pointed chin and, in an era of elaborate updos, wore her curly hair cut short.
    Clare McHugh, Washington Post, 28 May 2023
  • Didenko’s is one story among the tens of millions of lives displaced, disrupted or cut short by the war.
    Richard Galant, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Trump cut short a Pennsylvania town hall this week to listen and sway to music for more than half an hour.
    Ivana Saric, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024

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