short-laid

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Examples

• As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

• The precision it took to craft such a cohesive, wholly compelling work over 12 years is nothing short of remarkable.

• In short, fatherhood gets little attention in policy debates.

• In his State of the Union address 50 years ago, LBJ laid out his vision for the Great Society.

• But the qualities Mario Cuomo brought to public life—compassion, integrity, commitment to principle—remain in short supply today.

• The inner ends of the burrows were enlarged with a depression in the floor, where the eggs were laid.

• Sometimes the stems are quite bare; on other occasions they are partly branched; in any case the branches are short.

• Many of their cannon balls that fell far short of us, were collected and returned to them with powerful effect.

• He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.

• They are ovoid in shape, and lie in pairs, end to end, often forming short chains.