How to Use cut short in a Sentence

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• 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
• 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
• It was cut short when Pasqualini received a phone call.
  — Rick Armstrong, Chicago Tribune, 27 Mar. 2023
• 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 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
• 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
• His tour was cut short in the aftermath of that detailed article.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023
• Not only was the band’s set cut short, but the Malaysian government stepped in and canceled the remainder of the three-day festival.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
• The singer’s set was delayed by an hour and cut short, which led to attendees being angry and confused.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2023
• Plemons, 34, sported a charcoal-gray suit over a navy-blue T-shirt, adding shiny black shoes to the ensemble, with his hair cut short.
  — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
• Maher added that the retail sales rise could in fact possibly cut short the recession that the U.K. just slipped into.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 16 Feb. 2024
• The play is a critique of white liberalism based on her own life, which was cut short by her battle with cancer.
  — Kinsey Crowley, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2023
• In the aftermath, Carter cut short a campaign trip to return to Washington and make one last attempt to obtain the release of the hostages.
  — Jonathan Alter, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• Construction, which began in 1860, was cut short by the Civil War the following year.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 25 Mar. 2024
• Gore appeared in court in a gray collared shirt, his formerly shaggy hair cut short.
  — oregonlive, 12 June 2023
• On Friday morning, a handful of groups finished up their first round, which was cut short due to darkness and resumed at 8 a.m. in the morning.
  — Jordan Kaye, Charlotte Observer, 12 Apr. 2024
• But his freshman year, spent at Queen Creek Casteel, was cut short after two meets because of the pandemic in spring 2020.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 14 Apr. 2023
• Oakland Tech had won state tiles in three of the past five seasons, the two non-championship seasons being cut short due to the pandemic.
  — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024
• The seed mix is a blend of seven fine fescue grasses, which create a thick, green lawn that can be cut short like a normal lawn or left unmown.
  — Renee Freemon Mulvihill, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024