How to Use cut short in a Sentence

cut short

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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 pair's time on the show was cut short, though, when they were shockingly eliminated during the season's semi-finals.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 28 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Not only was the band’s set cut short, but the Malaysian government stepped in and canceled the remainder of the three-day festival.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2023
  • However, his season was cut short after just four plays due to an Achilles tear.
    — Antwan Staley, New York Daily News, 14 May 2024
  • The singer’s set was delayed by an hour and cut short, which led to attendees being angry and confused.
    — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Apr. 2023
  • Plemons, 34, sported a charcoal-gray suit over a navy-blue T-shirt, adding shiny black shoes to the ensemble, with his hair cut short.
    — Jen Juneau, Peoplemag, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Venus is flying along in your adventurous 9th house, but its flight is cut short by a square to Uranus in your foggy 12th house.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Maher added that the retail sales rise could in fact possibly cut short the recession that the U.K. just slipped into.
    — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 16 Feb. 2024
  • After the season was abruptly cut short, Cooke left Northside.
    — Rebecca Noel, Charlotte Observer, 1 July 2024

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