Shorter in a sentence

Next to the rest of the program, the concert’s shorter bookends got proportionally shorter ends of the stick.

The psychologists discovered that after a longer heartbeat interval, subjects tended to perceive the tone as longer; shorter intervals led subjects to assess the tone as shorter.

Countries in the Northern Cone, such as Mexico and Guatemala, offer shorter distances to the U.S., resulting in shorter transit times and lower shipping costs.

The AK-74 is approximately 37.12 inches long, though a North Korean rifle could have a shorter overall buttstock and overall length to suit shorter North Korean soldiers.

Those travelers coming to Connecticut for shorter stays can quarantine and self-monitor for less than that if their stay is shorter.

As the world moves towards shorter attention spans and even shorter time leash — microblogging, on platforms such as Instagram, tumblr, and twitter amongst others, is on the rise.

Every year, it feels like the time between one awards season and the next gets shorter and shorter.

From the perspective of peak-valley fluctuation model, the fluctuation interval is getting shorter and shorter which shows the sensitivity, maturity and adaptability of China-India relations.

When children were four to six years old, sleep duration was still about 20 minutes shorter in mothers and 15 minutes shorter in fathers, compared to that before pregnancy, a study found.

Both the dog at the top of this post, and the one right below, have been identified as Capitan — even though one has a shorter tail and is sleeping on a shorter gravestone.

The truth is, unlike the many claims that the unfinished film that showed at Cannes was 24 minutes shorter than the finished film, it was only 8 minutes shorter.

This makes the sky redder (as it scatters away shorter shorter wavelengths of light) and also bends the path of the light, directing it into the shadow.

Adult American bison are slightly heavier on average because of their less rangy build, and have shorter legs, which render them slightly shorter at the shoulder.

All of the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives that are shorter than eleven days, and the majority of these have half-lives that are shorter than 70 seconds.

All the remaining radioactive isotopes have half-lives shorter than 4.7612 years, and the majority of these have half-lives shorter than 12.2 seconds.

A narrower kayak makes a somewhat shorter paddle appropriate and a shorter paddle puts less strain on the shoulder joints.

EA now measures (twice) the shorter length DC, with remainder FC shorter than EA.

On the average, their workweek outside the home was several hours shorter than men's because a greater portion of them were employed only part-time or worked in the service sector, where hours were shorter than they were in manufacturing.

Recall that: : the whole is the longer part plus the shorter part; : the whole is to the longer part as the longer part is to the shorter part.

The length of the tunnels varies by species and location; nests in termitariums are necessarily much shorter than those dug into the earth, and nests in harder substrates are shorter than those in soft soil or sand.