Sentence examples for were so short from inspiring English sources

Because his pants were so short, she could see his legs where his socks ended.

Often, the inserts were so short that I couldn't tell where they had come from.

And the shorts he wore onstage were so short they made my friends uncomfortable".

The house overstretched the Spalls; on occasion they were so short of money they almost sold up.

"At one point we had to sell furniture from our house because we were so short of money.

Schools now worry about finding money for building projects, and a few districts were so short of cash they had to open several days late this year.

Hospitals were so short-staffed and overwhelmed that they left emergency patients to languish in corridors.

Seven of the ports were so short-staffed that managers had to cancel training sessions to keep operations running, the report said.

He was held out of the starting lineup Wednesday because of a sore left leg, but the Mets were so short-handed that Howe used him to pinch-hit.

The Devils were so short-handed in their 2-0 vinToronto Tononto on Monday night that they rushed Bobby Holik into action sooner than he expected while recuperating from a charley horse.

Some doctors at Harlem Hospital had complained they were so short-staffed that they had to rely on technicians to review the tests, but officials at the Health and Hospitals Corporation said other hospitals with similar or greater patient loads did not have a problem keeping up with the volume of tests.