How to Use cut short in a Sentence

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  • 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
  • Biel’s hair was styled in a sleek bob, and her nails were cut short, and polished black.
    Angel Saunders, People.com, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Their joy was cut short when the other team failed to cross and died in gunfire.
    Esther Kang, People.com, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The groundbreaking was moved up and the party was cut short.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • But his time in office was cut short by the turmoil of the Middle East.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Now, all the charm and effort that made this series so great has been cut short.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
  • Hull and a group of friends were in Cancun for a four-day trip that was quickly cut short.
    Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 26 Feb. 2025
  • 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
  • Patsy Cline's life and career were cut short in a plane crash six decades ago.
    Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The injury cut short one of the strongest stretches of Maye’s young career.
    Andrew Greif, NBC News, 27 Oct. 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
  • Yet that vision was cut short when the Eaton Fire started bearing down on her home.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 11 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • But their connection is cut short, leading to the group of besties trying to find him throughout the evening.
    Lisa Stardust, People.com, 4 Dec. 2024
  • 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
  • Pitt stars as Sonny Hayes, a once-promising driver whose career was cut short in the ‘90s.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 13 Mar. 2025
  • Her initial reverie was cut short by the piercing buzz of his cordless drill.
    Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
  • The papers — this one and every other one — are littered with stories of pain and sorrow, of death and of lives cut short.
    Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The efforts to cut short that shadow have been many and multifarious.
    Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2025

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