Sentence examples for light short from inspiring English sources

This concert ends with the light, short Symphony No. 14.

His light, short frame put football and basketball out of the question.

"He could say yes, light, short, dark, that would be reasonable," the Libyan leader said, cackling at what he called absurd evidence.

Others, and I was one, take pity on a tomato bleeding under a light, short and dull blade and reach for ever heavier, longer, sharper knives.

As the long, trailing rapier was unsuited to the new form of dress, fashion decreed the wearing of a light, short court sword.

Finally it gives, and she shows me a black-and-white portrait of a lanky woman with light, short hair, gazing down as if caught in a private thought.

Carbine, light, short-barrelled musket or rifle.

Holding a prayer book turned to Psalm 99, he was a stooped figure in gray trousers, a light short-sleeved shirt and sandals.

Although electric, solar or hydrogen power systems will be deployed in light, short-haul aircraft within the next decade, it will take much longer for the mass-transport, commercial aviation market to adopt them.

This summer the diggers are right down at the earliest Roman level, which suggests light, short-lived, possibly military buildings, in contrast with substantial pre-invasion structures including one massive rectangular house that may prove to be the largest Iron Age house in Britain.

Assimilation began with the shirting, which was basic and effective: an oxford made from a healthy-weight cotton, which hung just low enough to cover a belt, but not so low that it doubled as a smock; and an extremely light short-sleeve button-up, with vertical green and blue stripes ($375), that briefly made me reconsider my loathing of that style.