In the next cabin we meet the shortish figure of a tawny female, whose Indian features stand boldly out.
The one was a shortish man, coarse of figure, and whose browned features and figured hands bespoke him a sailor; the other was delicate of figure, with pale, careworn countenance and nervous demeanour.
You must not think, however, that the dame of Cho-sen walks about the streets attired in this manly garment, for over these trousers she wears a shortish skirt tied very high over the waist.
I like to see a tabby with a graceful carriage then, and shortish in forelegs, with beautifully well-fitted and rounded limbs, and with a tiger-like walk and mien.
Head: The head should be large and broad, with rathershortish ears, well placed, and the face ought to beam with intelligence and good nature.
Your temper's a leetle shortish and oncertain-like, sir.
One, a shortish man with a coal-black beard, moved so majestically that he seemed almost a giant.
It was in the middle of this monotonous inward muttering that the door of the office opened, and there came out a shortish figure, leather-jacketed and with enveloping overalls and wearing a cap with goggles, peak behind.
This was a shortish young man in greasy blue overalls.
The well-known "producer" was a shortish man with a bald head, a red moustache, and fiery eyes.
A shortish gentleman, grey and rather bald--one of his eyelids sort o' trembles, something like as if he was winking.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shortish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
