Words similar to shorten

Example sentences for: shorten

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

They lift the lady up, seductively tighten her leg muscles, and thrust her forward as if to launch her into the air and into her future, even as they shorten her stride and increase her risk of tripping.
To shorten the time significantly, the work-in-process in front of each of the twenty operations listed as part of the critical path would have to be reduced from a day to just several hours.
The Florida law will "shorten the length between sentencing and execution to 5 years" from the current average of 14.
And since allergies rarely shorten life spans or discourage mates, it is unlikely natural selection will ever weed them out.
This is the tendency to shorten frequently used words and to allow less frequently used words to become longer.