Sentence examples for calls short from inspiring English sources

I cut his calls short, refused to talk about our relationship.

"You make your calls short, sweet and to the point," he said.

It means you keep meetings and phone calls short without being rude.

"You have to ask if you can use it, and you have to keep the calls short.

While the Surfside, like most outer-borough motels, does a lot of its business providing what the hospitality industry calls "short stays," the sleaze factor hovers near zero.

-- punctuated by what the husband himself calls "short blinding passages," which in this book consist of moments of almost unbearable poignancy.

Duke neuroscientist Warren Meck calls short-order cooks "master interval timers".

Some worry that all this frugality may result in what Gita Nandan calls "short-sighted knee-jerk reactions," namely, passing up green products with high upfront costs, despite the long-term savings and reduced environmental impact.

What's gone wrong, O'Reilly argues, is that what he calls "short-term greed" has replaced the traditional "long-term greed" of the market.

In addition, concerns were expressed about a loss of creativity and innovation in science caused by strategically-directed funding calls, short-term funding, and trends towards funding of safer research projects and established research centres.

Buss says the U.S. approach to levees has been too focused on what he calls short-term economic/political gain that is ultimately transformed into long-term economic/political loss when major flooding results in levee failure or overtopping and then catastrophic flood damages and perhaps loss of life.