Example Sentences

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And if you get hepatitis B in the first five years of life, you have a 25 percent chance of going on to develop cirrhosis or liver cancer, which will shorten your life.

From Slate • Dec. 4, 2025

This second end-replication problem means that both strands of DNA will shorten with each division.

From Science Daily • Feb. 28, 2024

But on Thursday, it also revealed it will shorten its opening hours.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2023

Uganda will shorten the school term by two weeks to reduce daily contact amongst students and help curb the spread of Ebola, the education minister said on Tuesday.

From Reuters • Nov. 10, 2022

‘For tonight we go to the woods on the hills above Woodhall. It is some miles, but you shall have rest at the end of it, and it will shorten your journey tomorrow.’

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien