Sentences with shorten
short·en
S s - Originally called Lili, she eventually shortened her name to Lee. [VERB noun]
- Smoking can shorten your life. [VERB noun]
- Shorten implies reduction in length, extent, or duration [to shorten a rope, a visit, one's life, etc.]; curtail implies a making shorter than was originally intended, as because of necessity or expediency [expenditures curtailed because of a reduced income]; abridge implies reduction in compass by condensing, omitting parts, etc. but usually connotes that what is essential is kept [to abridge a dictionary]; abbreviate usually refers to the shortening of a word or phrase by contraction or by substitution of a symbol, but also has extended, sometimes jocular applications [an abbreviated costume]
- Her father paid £1,000 for an operation to shorten her nose. [VERB noun]
- To shorten sail.