How to Use cut short in a Sentence

cut short

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• But those dreams were cut short.
  — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 1 Oct. 2025
• His is a young life cut short, so there aren't many words.
  — Lauren Huff, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Dec. 2025
• My career was cut short with the neck, but now my neck is healthy.
  — Andrew Ravens‎, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Sep. 2025
• The woman had silver hair that was cut short.
  — David Sedaris, New Yorker, 23 Feb. 2026
• That career was cut short by injury.
  — Abigail Wise, Outside, 3 Jan. 2026
• 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
• My husband's journey was cut short, too.
  — Meredith Kile, People.com, 23 Aug. 2025
• The talks were cut short, and both sides blamed each other for the setbacks.
  — Chris Massaro, Fox News, 1 Nov. 2023
• Their joy was cut short when the other team failed to cross and died in gunfire.
  — Esther Kang, People.com, 26 June 2025
• Now, all the charm and effort that made this series so great has been cut short.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
• Both of Nwosu’s past two seasons were cut short by injuries.
  — Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
• Cycle of the city until cut short by climate change.
  — Literary Hub, 16 Mar. 2026
• By today’s standards, his life was cut short by cancer.
  — Dan Amos, Time, 4 Feb. 2026
• Taller lawn grass has a deeper, more robust root system than turf that is cut short.
  — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Oct. 2025
• Patsy Cline's life and career were cut short in a plane crash six decades ago.
  — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 21 Nov. 2024
• His season, however, was cut short three plays in.
  — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 16 Feb. 2026
• Deinert is 38, in a thick, worn hoodie, his brown hair cut short.
  — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 29 Dec. 2025
• There is a palpable fear that their own progress–and that of their children–will be cut short.
  — Janet Murguía, Fortune, 12 Jan. 2024
• Miller had a strong camp last summer, too, but it was cut short by a hamstring injury of his.
  — Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 21 Aug. 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
• 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
• Her initial reverie was cut short by the piercing buzz of his cordless drill.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 17 Feb. 2025
• Julia was muscular and petite, with a sweep of black hair cut short as a boy’s.
  — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 5 Feb. 2024
• Those efforts were, in the short term, cut short by a Delaware judge.
  — Rohan Goswami, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
• The penalty helped cut short a drive with Dallas down eight in the fourth quarter.
  — CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
• Too often, perfectly good food has its life cycle cut short.
  — Patty Oconnor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Mar. 2026
• But, because the shoot was cut short, Russell got only one.
  — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2025
• At the same time, there’s an unavoidable sense that something is being cut short here.
  — Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 15 Apr. 2026
• 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
• 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