Sentence examples for were very short from inspiring English sources

Short dresses were very short; long ones were sheer from floor to hip level on each side of a central modesty panel.

"Our conversations were very short.

"The meetings were very short," said the producer, Thomas Langmann.

By request, the new pieces were very short.

"The meetings were very short," Mr. Langmann recalled.

Here, too, the days were very longwhile the years were very short.

"We remember snows of our youth as much higher, but that's because we were very short".

You told your housemate you were very short on cash, but didn't say why.

Slave mortality rates were very high; life expectancies were very short; and populations grew little through reproduction.

Not all the days off were spent in big cities; many were in small towns, and so the runs were very short excursions.

Mr. Tracy got a big laugh simply by saying of a fabled Jewish basketball team, the Dizzy Izzies, "They were very short, because you know".