Example sentences for: shorter-lived

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

  • This increase in depreciation reflects a shift in the capital stock's composition from long-lived assets with relatively low depreciation rates, like steel mills, to shorter-lived assets such as computers and software.

  • Yes--men are shorter-lived, more cerebrally lopsided, more violent, better at some spatial abilities, worse at verbal abilities, more competitive but more forgiving of their competitors, more sexually jealous, more socially obtuse, and more promiscuous (at least, they'd like to be).

  • The first error is the assumption of proportionality: I have recently argued (de Grey 2004), from evolutionary considerations, that longer-lived species will show a smaller maximal proportional life-span extension in response to starvation, probably not much more than the same absolute increase seen in shorter-lived species.


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