Example sentences for: shrift

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

  • Some reviewers note that his personal life--if you can even say he had one--gets short shrift, and most say Frankel's time at the helm is not half as interesting as his flight from Germany in his childhood and his days as a young correspondent.

  • As readers of VERBATIM are aware, we give short shrift to the trappings of academia in our pages: we eschew footnotes (with rare exceptions) as well as bibliographies.

  • For instance, I have a very low tolerance for spelling errors and grammatical solecisms in letters of application from those soliciting work: job applicants who are too careless to correct the capitalization of california and the spelling Britian get short shrift, though I am more tolerant of those using presently for now .

  • The smaller one there is the Short Shrift.

  • But Serbs, suspicious of Tito's Croatian and Slovenian background, said he was giving them short shrift.


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