Sentence examples for occasionally short from inspiring English sources

Habit: Annual, climbing or prostrate, occasionally short, erect; clings by small, hooked prickles.

A man occasionally short of patience, he is never at a loss for words.

Though well conducted by Antonino Fogliani, it's occasionally short on orchestral lustre.

He is still a bruiser in the paint, with an unpredictable biorhythm and an occasionally short fuse.

The downside is that it is occasionally short on humour and sadness, and doesn't quite give us the opera's full emotional range.

She attended a Church of England school, where friends knew her as Emma, an ordinary student who was funny and friendly, though with an occasionally short fuse.

He was occasionally short-tempered — what father isn't sometimes — but he loved us and he let us know it.

Ms. Pelosi acknowledged that she occasionally short-circuited the process but said it was necessary to achieve some of her first-year goals.

Occasionally, short-sellers are allowed on the air to offer their view, but they are often treated the same as carnival clowns at a dunk tank".

Leaf: generally basal; cauline few, ascending or curving away; distal sheath margin and collar glabrous or hairy; ligule < 1 mm, hairy or membranous, fringed; blade flat to inrolled, generally glabrous or scabrous, occasionally short-soft-hairy.

Spikelet: glumes 2--3 mm, acuminate, occasionally short-awned, awn < 1 mm; lemma 3--4.2 mm, hairy below middle, awn 2--10 mm; anther 1.5--2.3 1.5--2.3 1.5--2.3low.