Sentence examples for length short from inspiring English sources

So skirt length (short!) becomes important.

They came up three-quarters of a length short.

Kahne came up about a car length short of catching Kenseth at the checkered flag.

The tail varies between species and may be long, of moderate length, short, or absent.

Johnson had settled on his chosen line and length; short, fast, at leg stump and the body of the batsman.

Aptitude ran out of track half a length short, but he finished four lengths in front of Performing Magic.

"Some authors have speculated that the earworm takes up short-term memory capacity and therefore it cannot last longer than the length short-term memory can contain," he says.

For dehydrogenation of acyl-CoA, 4 enzymes are described, each targeting fatty acids of a specific chain length: short-chain-acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (ACADS, with C4 and C6 specificity), medium- chain-acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (ACADM, with C4-C12 specificity), long-chain-acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (ACADL, active with C8-C20) and very-long-chain-acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (ACADVL, active with C12-C24) [43].

Old Fashioned fought back gamely along the rail but came up about a half-length short.

Alydar's style of relaxing early and charging late had caused him to come up a half-length short in the Derby and a neck-not-enough in the Preakness.

HORSE: 4. Point Determined TRAINER: Bob Baffert JOCKEY Garrett Gomez Immaturee colt endured traffic problems, but was rolling in the lane and came up a half-length short of A.P. Warrior.