How to use in-sentence of “short of”:
+ In 1944, the Third Reich were getting short of materials.
+ I remember saying last time that we were only 264 short of 60,000 articles.
+ Fighter Command had been suffering low morale since it was short of men and machines, and the break from airfield attacks allowed it to recover and so week by week, the defenders were getting stronger, and the losses suffered by the “Luftwaffe” were growing.
+ Ekier died in Warsaw, a fortnight short of his 101st birthday.
+ He died at his home in Pickens, South Carolina on January 2, 2020 from problems caused by the disease, three days short of his 75th birthday.
+ Rutledge died in February 2009, three months short of his 18th birthday.
+ In case we ultimately decide to keep them, then such an extensive rewrite of them should be in order, that nothing short of a drastic “stubbification” could solve their neutrality problems for the time being.
+ Rasputin died a day short of his 78th birthday on 14 March 2015 in Moscow.
Example sentences of “short of”:
+ Kornicki died just a few weeks short of his 101st birthday in Worthing, England of a heart attack.
+ She was four days short of her 90th birthday.
+ Finally, we have 59,736 articles now, just 264 short of 60,000.
+ While on final approach to Tripoli, the aircraft crashed into an orchard approximately 1.5 miles short of the runway 27.
+ She left the college one credit short of graduation, because she was not allowed to perform religious music during her senior recital.
+ Millions of citizens are still short of electricity, food and drinking water.
+ Skou died on 28 May 2018 in Aarhus, Denmark at the age of 99, five months short of his 100th birthday.
+ He used up so much of his time in the early stages of a game that he was often short of time at the end.
+ It was 22 ratifications short of the needed 38 in order for the proposed amendment to have been adopted.
+ In 1830, Abraham Lincoln, still 30 years short of becoming the President of America, accidentally caught his boss’s boat on the Rutledge Mill in New Salem.
+ Andrus died on August 24, 2017 in Boise, just short of his 86th birthday, due to complications from lung cancer., KIVI-TV, August 25, 2017.
+ Doerr died at his home in Junction City, OregonJunction City, Oregon on November 13, 2017 of natural causes at the age of 99, five months short of his 100th birthday.
+ Clarridge died at the age of 83, a week short of his 84th birthday in Leesburg, Virginia on April 9, 2016 from complications of esophageal cancer.
+ The French master was sick and short of money at the time, and died three years later.
+ Cardano was often short of money, and gambled compulsively.
+ Exposure to harsh weather caused his death, just days short of his 42nd birthday.
+ The standard model falls short of being a theory of everything.
+ A few points still remain short of having reached consensus.
+ Kornicki died just a few weeks short of his 101st birthday in Worthing, England of a heart attack.
+ She was four days short of her 90th birthday.
+ Finally, we have 59,736 articles now, just 264 short of 60,000.