Sentence examples for it gets shorter from inspiring English sources

Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter.

And the Axiom certainly looks like the SUV of the future, with a wagonlike sleekness from the side that's a sort of optical illusion, since although the Axiom is about the height of most SUVs, it gets shorter windows and taller sheet metal, giving it car proportions.

Explains Charland, "As the sparkler burns it gets shorter, and, when combined to the back and forth movement of the metronome, a zig-zag is traced on the film during a long exposure.

The lag time represents the time of unwinding, because it gets shorter when the duplex DNA to be unwound is 25 bp rather than 40 bp.

This is as luxurious as it gets short of taking an Orient Express-style charter service.

But when a team ties large bonus money into the contracts of a few elite players, it gets short-term cap relief at a long-term cost.

The valley is the most important food center in the United States (and among the most important in the world), and it gets short shrift, largely because we tend to see it as industrial, monolithic, ugly and uninteresting.

That's about as concrete as it gets short of a press release.

With an 18 P/E, it gets short shrift from analysts but will recover sharply and show them.

Really, nobody watches who is in the line, they just wait to see when it gets short.

Men's hairstyles are about as simple as it gets: short and basic cuts are the way to go.