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come short

VERB
  1. fail to meet (expectations or standards)

How To Use come short In A Sentence

  • Conditions are now worsening as the days become shorter and the roads icier.
  • The only remaining possible explanation appears to be that seconds have gradually become shorter. Times, Sunday Times
  • You go along with him.I'll come shortly.
  • If you did not do anything with the flyback, gradually the internal capacitance will become shorted and you will need to refurbish the flyback.
  • He will support his arguments with many stories of the wonderful instinct and percipiency displayed by his animals; all of which stories, though exceedingly marvellous, obtain implicit credence in the mind of the narrator; and only come short, in point of hyperbolical marvel, of the wonderful utterance of Tom Connor's cat, in the plain Anglo-Saxon vernacular. Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter
  • But it has become shorthand for all forms of internet abuse. Times, Sunday Times
  • Extreme sports has become shorthand for "cool" to middle-aged filmmakers obsessed with wealth.
  • During September and October the days become shorter.
  • If you did not do anything with the flyback, gradually the internal capacitance will become shorted and you will need to refurbish the flyback.
  • Once into the southern hemisphere the lines of latitude would become shorter and finally vanish at the south pole.
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