Sentence examples for foreshorten from inspiring English sources
'foreshorten' is a correct and usable word in written English
It is often used to mean 'shorten' or 'make shorter', or to describe a situation or object that appears to be shorter or smaller than it really is. For example, "The ship appeared to be foreshortened by the fog."
verb
To render the image of an object such that it appears to be receding in space as it is perceived visually.
"The role of my profession is to address those fears and to support those people, not to encourage them, even silently, to believe that they should foreshorten their lives".
He added that the force has decided to "foreshorten this particular part of the campaign".
Applying the solutions these medical organizations have already discovered could allow us to bypass or at least foreshorten what has become an interminable trial-and-error search for the answers to our country's health care woes.
Speaking as someone who risked surgery in 2014 to correct a lower back problem that threatened to foreshorten his own career, Murray knows what he is talking about.
"For the kinds of semi-soft and semi-hard cheeses I make, too much salt can foreshorten the flavour.
And while the shallow tv camera angles at Buck Shaw foreshorten the impression of their play somewhat, it's fair to say that there are a fair few goals scored there that can be fairly described as being "bundled" as much as "kicked".
This was thrilling news indeed as the clear inference is that there are other prehistoric creatures on the grand prix circuit who use their weirdly foreshortened front legs for swatting away pterodactyls and making futile attempts to grab up lithe and bronzed young cave-chicks clad in sloth fur bikinis.
Transparency, layered composition, exaggerated foreshortening, distortion and close-up heads feature in his earlier work too.
The extreme foreshortening of his 1925 "Fire Escape", for example, shot from below, shows a fellow climbing on a ladder.
Whereas Mr Yu's earlier stories were violent and bloody, in this work the brutality is mental: the cruelty of a life foreshortened; the unwarranted destruction of a marriage; the simple, horrific savagery of everyday life.
It is a good sign that he has apologised for having quit that government after only 49 days, a pathetically foreshortened stint that was shambolic and illiberal while it lasted.
