How to Use truncate in a Sentence

truncate

verb

• But that detour is not the end of the road for efforts to truncate due process.
  — Joe Davidson | Columnist, Washington Post, 12 May 2017
• The ranges for each voice type are truncated, much shorter.
  — Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2018
• Too-early high school start times then truncate teen sleep in the morning, so that sleep is squeezed at both ends.
  — Julie Wright, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
• Even in the days leading up to his departure, Trump asked whether the trip could be truncated.
  — Kevin Liptak and Jeff Zeleny, CNN, 28 May 2017
• Why rush it in a season that figures to be truncated at best?
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2020
• Metro said the decision on where to truncate trips was based on stations with the least riders.
  — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
• For the first time in its history, the NFL season was truncated by a strike, and each team played just nine games.
  — Barry Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
• As the royals stood in the balcony, jets streaked overhead, in a flyby that was truncated due to the weather.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
• There are no shortcuts available to Yazidis -- no way to truncate our trauma.
  — Nadia Murad, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
• The partners plan to truncate the Montchanin course, currently the shortest of three courses at the club, while leaving the two others at 18 holes.
  — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
• Or, lawmakers could choose to delay or truncate such programs to lower the cost.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
• This year’s legislation would truncate much of that process.
  — Dan Sullivan, Sun Sentinel, 7 Apr. 2023
• Cassidy has Bjork there, in part, as a safe harbor for the young forward, whose first two seasons here were truncated by shoulder surgery.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
• This would include truncating the size of Mars and the prevention of planet formation in the region between Mars and Jupiter, says Kane.
  — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
• What my best tactic is: to just sit and listen quietly and let the awkward silences fill themselves and not truncate my guests from their point.
  — Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2022
• That sounds like a bad way to write a screenshot cropping tool, but in Google's defense, the Android 9 release of the Markup tool worked correctly and truncated the overwritten file.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 20 Mar. 2023
• A rain delay of nearly two hours truncated Trevor Bauer's outing in the series finale against Kansas City.
  — Zack Meisel, cleveland.com, 5 June 2017
• There was a Free Press Summer Festival set between, but it was truncated due to weather, and hardly counts.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 12 Sep. 2019
• The trip has been delayed, and truncated, to keep Pence in Washington in case his tie-breaking vote is needed to pass tax legislation in the Senate.
  — Bloomberg.com, 15 Dec. 2017
• Moments that should deliver a quick plot point drag on, while courtroom scenes—where Comey is clearly at home—are oddly truncated.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 1 June 2023
• Then controversy sparked last spring, when Wu announced that the outdoor dining season would be truncated to five months and that the privilege would come with a fee.
  — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023
• As part of the city's new tack on troubled schools, the department on Monday also backed truncating one Renewal school and merging five with other sites.
  — Leslie Brody, WSJ, 19 Dec. 2017
• Nearly a third of the genes have picked up mutations that cause them to produce a protein that is truncated, with translation stopping before the full protein is made.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 3 Aug. 2019
• The amorous couple was adapted from a pair of dancers in an exuberant Rubens painting of a country wedding — although here their legs have been truncated so that the figures are seated on the ground.
  — Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 20 July 2017
• The toughest season of Hilton’s career, a season truncated by injury, had just come to an end in another ugly loss that spiraled out of control in the second half.
  — Joel A. Erickson, Indianapolis Star, 30 Dec. 2019
• He was limited to 74 pitches because his spring training was truncated by the World Baseball Classic.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
• His first year was truncated by injury problems, whilst Dembele looked short of confidence for large periods last term.
  — SI.com, 20 June 2019
• The main event was truncated, drivers crashed more than normal due to tight turns, and fans complained about poor communication on weather updates.
  — Hank Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2023
• Because long strings of letters, periods, and numbers eventually roll over, it was truncated to JN.1—the stealthily moving mutant sweeping the world today.
  — Erin Prater, Fortune Well, 4 Jan. 2024
• Joe Mauer’s greatness was truncated, his optimal outcome as a ballplayer very much unrealized.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 15 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024