Examples of truncate in a Sentence

Verb a truncated version of the 11 o'clock newscast followed the awards show, which ran over its time slot—as it always does

Recent Examples on the Web: Verb 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 Protesters have swarmed city streets ever since the Oakland school board’s Feb. 9 vote to close, merge or truncate 11 schools beginning this summer and continuing through the next academic year. — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 Mar. 2022 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 Multiple mergers were removed from the resolution, but members voted to merge RISE Community Elementary with New Highland Academy, and to truncate 6-8 from La Escuelita K-8 and Hillcrest K-8. — Annie Vainshtein, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2022 The coronavirus forced the MLB to delay, truncate and rearrange its 2020 season, likely denting fans’ enthusiasm and causing World Series ratings to dip. — Joe Walsh, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021 Or, lawmakers could choose to delay or truncate such programs to lower the cost. — Aj Willingham, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021 There are no shortcuts available to Yazidis -- no way to truncate our trauma. — Nadia Murad, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021 Organizers may have to truncate some activities depending on the volunteers available. — cleveland, 22 May 2021 See More

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