How to Use short-order in a Sentence

short-order

adjective

• The first in his family to go to college, Lauretta paid his way as a short-order cook.
  — David W. Brown, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2023
• Liza’s hopefulness sounds a lot like her character Tina on The Bear, moving up from the short-order cook to a more vital member of the team in season 2.
  — Diane Farr, EW.com, 15 Feb. 2024
• The Chicago Bears used short-order cooking, and the Indianapolis Colts had a couple of linemen eat their way through the schedule.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 12 May 2023
• His father was a short-order cook; his mother, a housekeeper.
  — Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 5 Feb. 2024
• But in recent years, studios have more often focused on streaming short-order series with eight to 10 episodes.
  — Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• The short-order and short-lived shows of today have some feeling like itinerant workers forced to hop from writers room to writers room after four-to-eight weeks.
  — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 11 July 2023
• In the new world order, short-order series hire writers to pen all the scripts over a 10- or 13-week period before physical production begins.
  — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 3 May 2023
• Increasingly, studios focused on streaming short-order series with eight to 10 episodes.
  — Anousha Sakoui, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2023
• According to the guild, 40 percent of showrunners, executive producers and co-executive producers on short-order TV series do not have span protection.
  — Katie Kilkenny, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 13 Nov 2024