Sample Sentences fortruncate (editor-reviewed)
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My phone battery was running low, so I had to truncate the conversation.truncate = shorten by ending suddenly
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He was racing along, his truncated tail held high, in the wheel Mr. McDuff had built for him. (source)truncated = abruptly terminating (suddenly ending)
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Mostly, though, I threw all my frustration into building those perfect, truncated pyramids of fruit. (source)truncated = shortened by terminating abruptly before the end
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Perry, who could never find trousers to fit his truncated lower half, wore blue jeans rolled up at the bottom and a leather windbreaker. (source)truncated = shortened
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They had been able to secure a truncated copy of Pickney's Treaty, but the federal government had yet to provide the defense with any part of the Treaty of 1819. (source)truncated = shortened by terminating abruptly before the end (not entirely complete)
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...the future could be turned onto an unlikely path, but a better one. One that would lead to a living land after all, even if it was truncated; one that would lead someday to... (source)truncated = truncated (abruptly cut off)
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Jacob was still chewing over our truncated conversation when we got to Charlie's. (source)truncated = abruptly terminated
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He pointed out that it was relatively easy to pronounce, though there was the danger that Americans, obsessed with abbreviation, would truncate it to Nick.† (source)
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"You must imagine this staircase the way it was once, with the gas lamps burning all up and down the steps, like fireflies in the dark, and the balconies full of people. Not the way it is now, so—" He broke off, searching for a word. "Truncated?" Jace suggested dryly. (source)Truncated = shortened by terminating abruptly before the end
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As I took hold of the handle of the door I heard an exclamation, oddly truncated at the end, and a click and a thud. (source)truncated = terminated abruptly
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Hiro has cappuccino skin and spiky, truncated dreadlocks.† (source)
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Their truncated swimming-pool performances.† (source)
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At first, these individuals were known simply as "egg hunters," but this was quickly truncated to the nickname "gunters."† (source)
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Not that it absolves me, but I was a young man, Mr. Markos, eager to take on the world, full of dreams, modest and vague as they may have been, and I pictured my youth ebbing away, my prospects increasingly truncated.† (source)
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The nine-thousand-meter peaks beyond were only hinted at by gray and white planes soon intersected by low clouds, but even so truncated were powerful to behold.† (source)
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Lives that would be brought together to make a graceful end are abruptly truncated.† (source)
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