Sentence examples for started out short from inspiring English sources

An against-all-odds, derring-do spirit that propelled Mr. Peres to help turn the vulnerable country that started out short of guns into a nuclear power, and later to pursue peace with its neighbors.

Louis Rosenberg started out short on entrepreneurial experience and long on academic credentials, with three Stanford degrees in mechanical engineering.

They start out short, then he weaves beads into them, then he grows them out, then he trims them again.

In the meantime, picking a fight with China over Taiwan is about the worst way it could start out, short of actual warfare.

I started out making short clay and 2D animations in my bedroom before I ever used 3D software.

He started out nothing short of plummy, in a sports coat, describing cars in the rather colourless terms of the true enthusiast, people to whom the length of the driver's door matters.

He started out performing short sets of about five or 10 minutes in a variety of open mic nights at venues around London such as the Banana Cabaret in Balham and the Tunnel Club in Greenwich, the latter a notoriously tough room that was home to hundreds of sharp hecklers.

By 1930, Starevich had been directing stop-motion films for 20 years – he started out making short films using dead insects in what is now Lithuania; after the October revolution, he emigrated to France and continued making films there until the 1960s.

The Chevy Volt's story started out a short three years ago as a rolling concept and then quickly, it became clear that GM was dead serious about this car.

The two brow horns started out straight and short in the baby - they're about an inch long - but ended up long and curved forward in the adult, while the nose horn became larger, like that of a rhinoceros, although it was made of bone in Triceratops.

Forbes.com: Internet video started out as mostly short clips, but now we're seeing more long-form video appearing on the Web, produced by both professionals and amateurs.