How to Use short time in a Sentence

short time

noun

• Just a short time later, the Lions were once again on the clock.
  — Andrew Birkle, Detroit Free Press, 28 Apr. 2023
• Rose flew home to Las Vegas a short time later and died the next day.
  — Erin Couch, The Enquirer, 2 Oct. 2024
• The car was abandoned a short time later, Weisler said.
  — Rebekah Riess, CNN, 16 Mar. 2024
• In our short time with the Z Flip 6, the outer screen was bright and responsive.
  — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 10 July 2024
• She was captured a short time later near the house, per WLBT.
  — Samira Asma-Sadeque, Peoplemag, 22 Apr. 2024
• East Haven Fire Department was called a short time later to get the car open and pull the dog out of the car.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• Two girls, ages 6 and 7, were confirmed dead a short time later.
  — Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 30 July 2024
• That's a short time frame to have that many shootings to include a homicide.
  — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 10 July 2024
• The woman was pronounced dead at the scene and the man died at the hospital a short time later.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 2 July 2023
• Check out this hail in Belmont captured by one of our Deputies just a short time ago.
  — Harriet Blair Rowan, The Mercury News, 30 Mar. 2024
• The chase ended a short time later, but the suspect refused to get out of his car.
  — Lori Weisberg march 4, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2023
• All told us they had been displaced from their homes — some for a short time, others to this day.
  — Patrick Lohmann, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2024
• These options would put student loans on hold for a short time.
  — Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 18 Sep. 2024
• After a short time inside Massey’s home, Grayson ordered her to take a pot off the stove.
  — Karen Attiah, Washington Post, 29 July 2024
• The man was detained around 5:35 a.m. and the freeway was reopened a short time later, Collins said.
  — Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2023
• For his part, Gibson valued the short time that Flores opened for 49.
  — Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2024
• The car was recovered a short time later, sources said.
  — Jack Date, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
• And proponents had to campaign over a short time frame.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2024
• Just a short time later that day, 12-year-old Joseph Dunn was also attacked by a shark in the same creek.
  — Seth Jacobson, USA TODAY, 18 June 2024
• He was found dead in a police station a short time later.
  — Tinbete Ermyas, NPR, 20 May 2024
• Rivera, 44, also shot in the back, managed to run out of the park to a deli, where cops found him a short time later, Kenny said.
  — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024
• He was rushed to a hospital and pronounced dead a short time later.
  — Stephen Sorace, Fox News, 6 Mar. 2024
• Dail fell backwards and was pronounced dead a short time later.
  — Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2023
• Both men were taken to a hospital where one of them died a short time later.
  — Harry Harris, The Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2024
• He was pronounced dead in the emergency room a short time later.
  — Denise Petski, Deadline, 9 July 2024
• The father then found the child in the backseat of the vehicle and rushed the child to the hospital, where the child was pronounced dead a short time later.
  — Warren Kulo | [e-mail], al, 28 Feb. 2023
• The label only existed for a short time in the ‘70s and has been dormant since then, but the name still belonged to Sony.
  — Melinda Newman, Billboard, 16 Feb. 2024
• Deputies found the unnamed 16-year-old suspect a short time later by a canal in the area and placed him into custody.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 22 Sep. 2023
• Yet huge progress in a short time has been made in the creation of a Canary Islands Cinema.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 20 May 2024
• Many of those who assert as much overlook the extent to which the economics of child-rearing have changed in a relatively short time span.
  — Stephanie H. Murray, The Atlantic, 26 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 1 Nov 2024