How to Use short-form in a Sentence

short-form

adjective
  • The short-form races were among the few clear growth stories.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • This doesn't mean artists need to abandon short-form content or playlists.
    Sam Saideman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • Before Slushy Noobz, both made short-form videos on their own.
    Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2026
  • For example, turn a strong idea into a short-form post.
    Sun Yi, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • One contributing factor may be the rise of short-form content.
    Ulrich Boser, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
  • If that nuance got lost in a short-form video, that’s worth acknowledging.
    Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • Use short-form to capture attention, but convert through longer-form content where trust is built.
    Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
  • The data also pushes back against the idea that short-form video has overtaken longer content.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 June 2026
  • The story is told across nine innings of baseball and consists of 17 short-form, social-first episodes.
    William Earl, Variety, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Marija is an executive at a company that pumps out short-form video slop.
    Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Burnham’s short-form videos are notably better than Labour’s current efforts.
    Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • ByteDance and Kuaishou have absolute control over short-form vertical video.
    Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Audio Flux is a home for innovative, short-form audio and bold storytelling.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The short-form content, engineered for a vertical phone screen, has drawn comparisons to a new addictive form of soap opera.
    Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
  • The modern world, particularly those youngest viewers, seeks short-form content, often through smart phones and tablets.
    Ali Rampling, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The company believes short-form previews can directly convert into full-length views.
    Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The competition that worries him isn't Disney or Pixar, though, but short-form content.
    ABC News, 19 June 2026
  • The surge in video podcasting, short-form clips, and consumption on smart TVs is reshaping the landscape.
    Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
  • One of the big themes at APOS this year is the explosive growth of vertical and short-form content.
    Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • Young people today have never experienced a world without ubiquitous short-form video.
    Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 8 July 2026
  • Social-media platforms are filled with short-form videos that clumsily grapple with stigmas surrounding height supremacy.
    Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • The plan calls for a fresh short to premiere on the platform each month, with the goal of building an audience and community around independent short-form work.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 13 July 2026
  • Yeah, so the distinction between short-form content as a category versus clips as a category.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • In 2025, short-form content viewed on Peacock mobile increased 257% year over year.
    Jacqueline Jevtich, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Vault, which is already live, serves as a hub for independent film, television, documentaries, short-form content and music.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Regardless, the lure of short-form cricket aggravates the Test situation.
    Ahsan Iftikhar Nagi, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The new project, which has already started pre-production, will either be a standard show or one optimized for the short-form vertical viewing market.
    William Earl, Variety, 20 July 2026
  • The streaming giant has been exploring new formats, though, including a vertical short-form video feature, dubbed Verts.
    Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 5 Aug. 2026
  • With the growth of short-form content, the youth are being shown 30 seconds or less of information, with little processing of each video before scrolling.
    Vriti Shah, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 July 2026
  • The move demonstrates the fast-growing appeal of short-form vertical video, even for a company that is also on the cutting edge of the scrolling graphic novel format.
    William Earl, Variety, 17 Aug. 2026

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