Shorter

[ shawr-ter ]

noun

1. Frank, born 1947, U.S. long-distance runner: Olympic marathon gold medalist 1972.
2. Wayne, 1933–2023, U.S. jazz saxophonist and composer.

Example Sentences

While grocery shopping a guy I had noticed following me earlier, walked by me really fast and said, ‘You look shorter in person.’

From The Daily Beast

“Running is just that much more efficient in expending more calories in a shorter amount of time,” Williams says.

From The Daily Beast

The Raptor carries six AMRAAMs and two shorter range AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles inside its weapons bays.

From The Daily Beast

For a shorter introduction to Richardson, read Journey to Paradise: Short Stories and Autobiographical Sketches.

From The Daily Beast

As soon as Jaco [Pastorius] told me that Wayne [Shorter] would be there, I was on it right away!

From The Daily Beast

These sections also have vibrations of their own which are of shorter length and more rapid motion.

From Project Gutenberg

They are usually shorter and more irregular in outline, and more frequently have irregularly broken ends.

From Project Gutenberg

The single employer rightly knows that there is a wage higher than he can pay and hours shorter than he can grant.

From Project Gutenberg

By all the sounded consonants we have—“Inhuman Civil War;” the latter shorter, more significant, and more easily remembered.

From Project Gutenberg

The Chukchees use a pipe similar to those of the Eskimo, but with a much larger and shorter stem.

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