court Anglais:

Life's short.

Three students made short speeches and introduced themselves and their countries.

I am sorry to write such a long letter. I didn't have time to write a short one.

She found the evening boring and uninteresting, in short, a waste of time.

A good sailor only requires a short time to get his sea legs.

They employ foreigners because Japanese workers are in short supply.

I was trying to tell him what had really happened, but he cut me short.

After a short visit, he suddenly stood up and said he was leaving.

I laid down for a short nap and fell asleep for two hours.

Never choose a vocation just because the hours are short.

A short stroll along the beach gave me a good appetite for breakfast.

When his food supply ran short, he had to look for a new place to live.

It takes only a short time to learn how to explain things to students. It takes much longer to learn when not to.

For a short period of time, wide neckties were in style.

It's unlikely that the next person who walks through that door will be wearing short pants.

He runs.

Relationships built on money will end when the money runs out.

The Hikari runs at a speed of 200 kilometres an hour.

Tom can still make it on time if he runs.

The Balkan Mountain range runs across Bulgaria from west to east.

Any car will do, as long as it runs.

I should sell it while it still runs.

The public transportation system runs like clockwork.

He batted .343 with 54 home runs.

When he runs out of knives, Lyle butters his toast with a spoon.

The company's financial year runs from April until March of the following year.

The "retired" president of that company runs the whole show from behind the scenes, so the current president is nothing but a figurehead.

With a pitter-patter of footsteps she runs off to the entrance.

All the vehicles behaved well on their test runs.

Imogen of the Internet can type over 110 words per minute, but runs a 20-minute mile. The rest of her family has the opposite problem.