cut short

idiom

: to end (something) earlier than expected
We had to cut our vacation short.
The speech was cut short.

Examples of cut short in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The fans who flocked to Footprint Center on Tuesday night were on a pilgrimage to see the relaunch of the E Street Band’s first tour since then — a tour cut short in 2023 as Springsteen was treated for peptic ulcer disease, a potentially serious gastrointestinal condition. Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 20 Mar. 2024 After being staged at the Wyndham’s Theatre on London’s West End in 2012, the play was supposed to head to Broadway, but was cut short in 2020 by the COVID pandemic. Michaela Zee, Variety, 17 Mar. 2024 The team was hot during the 2019-20 season but the pandemic caused it to be cut short and there was no champion that season. Ricardo Torres, Journal Sentinel, 12 Mar. 2024 The flight was cut short, Yakel said, when the plane, a Boeing 777-200 twin-jet, lost one of its landing gear tires during takeoff. Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024 But such a personal journey, stretched between unreconciled pasts and futures cut short, is not easily translated into a film. Savina Petkova, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024 Outdoor activities at one Johnson County school were cut short Monday afternoon while Overland Park police and the FBI investigated a suspicious package found near an elementary school. Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2024 Oakland Tech had won state tiles in three of the past five seasons, the two non-championship seasons being cut short due to the pandemic. Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2024 There are so many memories, our lives were cut short. Albinson Linares, NBC News, 29 Feb. 2024

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“Cut short.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cut%20short. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

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