How to Use cut short in a Sentence

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• 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
• But for travelers at Dunedin Airport, hugs during those heartfelt goodbyes could now be cut short.
  — Sophie Prideaux, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2024
• The testimony was cut short amid objections from the prosecution.
  — Keegan Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
• The installation sets out to recreate a music festival dedicated to peace and love, savagely cut short by a terrorist attack.
  — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 24 Sep. 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
• 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
• 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
• His tour was cut short in the aftermath of that detailed article.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 2 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024