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Example sentences for: shortcuts

How can you use “shortcuts” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Brooks' best scenes operate on an X-ray level of honesty, so that shortcuts, formulas, easy ways out of dramatic jams--stuff that slicker filmmakers can get by with--seem in his work embarrassingly exposed.
The paper reports that construction shortcuts were common in older high-rises, including cases where building crews used vegetable oil cans instead of bricks.
During the last few days, however, Chatterbox has been a little pressed for time amid the hurly-burly of domestic life (the refrigerator broke down, the Chattersitter smashed up the Taurus wagon), and he's been looking for shortcuts.
Third, it shortcuts the "summary judgment" and "censure" frames by organizing the trial's issues in temporal sequence rather than as a decision tree.
Colloquial Hebrew is excessively economical, and its shortcuts have been further abbreviated by the numerous acronyms used throughout the armed forces.