Use shorten in a sentence
Sentences ending with shorten
- For them nothing is too old, nothing is too new, for to their books of all others is applicable the saying of D'Alembert that the author kills himself in lengthening out what the reader kills himself in trying to shorten. [3]
More example sentences with the word shorten in them
- You told me yesterday that you were glad to sleep, and so am I; still, to see you once more, I have been only to glad to shorten my night's rest considerably. [10]
- The proposed emancipation would shorten the war, perpetuate peace, insure this increase of population, and proportionately the wealth of the country. [7]
- I knew it would be, but I couldn't bear to shorten my visit in Brandon. [4]
- The station buildings were long, low huts, made of sundried, mud-colored bricks, laid up without mortar (adobes, the Spaniards call these bricks, and Americans shorten it to 'dobies). [5]
- The captain said we ought to shorten sail anyway, out of common prudence. [5]
- It was easy to see that these men had made up their minds to force words from Joan to-day which should shorten up her case and bring it to a prompt conclusion. [5]
- Is it doubted, then, that the plan I propose, if adopted, would shorten the war, and thus lessen its expenditure of money and of blood? [7]
- Let us shorten the story wherever we can, for it will need it, being long. [5]
- And yet, if the reader will pardon the confidence, pity intervened to shorten it. [4]
- The people beyond the Pyrenees shall learn that, even for the brother, it is no sin, but a duty, to shorten the life of the brother who abandoned the holy Church. [10]
- If we continued the discussion, perhaps it might pleasantly shorten the next few hours, which I dread as I do my whole future existence, but I should be obliged in the outset to yield the victory to you. [10]
- It was suggested that it might shorten life. [6]
- Any device that shall shorten those periods is welcome to them. [4]
- I had a right to expect that you would be more eager to hear me out than to shorten the time of waiting for these miserable merchants. [10]
- Barely had she reached the deep water beyond the sands when her length began to shorten, and the dense cloud of smoke that rose made it plain that she was firing. [9]
- One of the porters had furnished wine to shorten the hours of waiting; but it could only be drunk in secret, so there were no goblets. [10]
- I felt that Pernice was right--it was the warm heart, not the cool head, which should deal with these matters, and I left the church, which I had entered merely to shorten an hour, feeling as if released from a burden. [10]
- Let me shorten one of Ambroise Pare's stories for you. [3]
- The swift power of the reptile over life and death, was an emblem to the votaries of the power of the god to postpone the death of man or to shorten his days. [10]
- As a matter of fact, we see in the State prisons that the men most likely to shorten their time by good behavior, and to get released on parole before the expiration of their sentence, are the men who make crime their career. [4]
- All the artful maneuvers suggested by our generals meant fresh movements of the army and a lengthening of its marches, whereas the only reasonable aim was to shorten those marches. [2]
- I cannot lay it down, and I cannot shorten it, for story, character, soul and reflection, imagination, observation are dragging me along after them. [11]
- Would she not, indeed, be thankful to the drug if it should shorten her miserable existence? [10]
- The parole system in the United States was an attempt to carry out the same experiment, and with it went along the practice which enabled the prisoner to shorten the time of his confinement by good behavior. [4]
- The Apprentice caught hold of the rope to tie knots in it and so shorten it, but Ranulph again appealed to the Vicomte. [11]
- They turned their first attention to straightening the river just above the Landing, where it made a deep bend, and where the maps and plans showed that the process of straightening would not only shorten distance but increase the "fall. [5]
- Paaker's was, in fact, an ignoble, that is to say, a selfish nature; to shorten his road he trod down flowers as readily as he marched over the sand of the desert. [10]
- I got up every twenty minutes and renewed ours, and this gave Mrs. McWilliams the opportunity to shorten the times of giving the medicines by ten minutes, which was a great satisfaction to her. [5]
- These torments on earth will shorten his stay in purgatory. [10]
- I need only detain wandering pilgrims, or invite minnesingers to the castle, to shorten the hours. [10]
- And she has been used to wealth on so vast a scale that she has to shorten to single words the expressions describing great sums. [5]
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