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

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