How to Use short-form in a Sentence

short-form

adjective
  • The short-form races were among the few clear growth stories.
    — Clayton Davis, Variety, 11 June 2026
  • The short-form races were among the few clear growth stories.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • This doesn't mean artists need to abandon short-form content or playlists.
    — Sam Saideman, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • For example, turn a strong idea into a short-form post.
    — Sun Yi, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026
  • If that nuance got lost in a short-form video, that’s worth acknowledging.
    — Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez, CNN Money, 30 June 2026
  • Use short-form to capture attention, but convert through longer-form content where trust is built.
    — Rolling Stone Culture Council, Rolling Stone, 28 May 2026
  • The data also pushes back against the idea that short-form video has overtaken longer content.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 30 June 2026
  • Burnham’s short-form videos are notably better than Labour’s current efforts.
    — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026
  • ByteDance and Kuaishou have absolute control over short-form vertical video.
    — Jon Markman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Audio Flux is a home for innovative, short-form audio and bold storytelling.
    — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 21 Apr. 2026
  • The short-form content, engineered for a vertical phone screen, has drawn comparisons to a new addictive form of soap opera.
    — Cerys Davies, Los Angeles Times, 17 June 2026
  • The modern world, particularly those youngest viewers, seeks short-form content, often through smart phones and tablets.
    — Ali Rampling, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2026
  • The company believes short-form previews can directly convert into full-length views.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 17 Apr. 2026
  • The competition that worries him isn't Disney or Pixar, though, but short-form content.
    — ABC News, 19 June 2026
  • One of the big themes at APOS this year is the explosive growth of vertical and short-form content.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
  • Social-media platforms are filled with short-form videos that clumsily grapple with stigmas surrounding height supremacy.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 4 June 2026
  • Yeah, so the distinction between short-form content as a category versus clips as a category.
    — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Media companies, meanwhile, have adjusted to satiate short-form cravings, too.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 15 May 2026
  • Showbox plans to use the partnership as a springboard to accelerate its expansion into the global short-form drama market.
    — Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 14 June 2026
  • The platform is also bringing advertisers into short-form projects, describing the format as attractive to brands that want rapid turnarounds.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 June 2026
  • His additional short-form work includes Hysteric and Mommy.
    — Zac Ntim, Deadline, 15 June 2026
  • Disney+ premieres the show during the Annecy festival on June 26, with 22 half-hour episodes, along with a new short-form, four-episode spin-off series.
    — Kevin Giraud, Variety, 22 June 2026
  • Now, Stahl argues that the prevalence of short-form online content could lead to a similar renaissance if writers embrace the opportunity to hone their crafts around the constraints of the format.
    — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 2 June 2026
  • The company has already begun building a dedicated pipeline around short-form storytelling as the format continues to gain momentum across Asia.
    — Lin Ying-Hsuan, Variety, 18 June 2026
  • Various short-form web episodes followed later on Funny or Die and as part of a promotional campaign for 2022’s Bros.
    — Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 30 May 2026
  • One strong insight can become a LinkedIn post, a short-form video script, a newsletter section, an Instagram caption, and a Twitter thread without any of them feeling like copies.
    — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
  • Both understand the power of bite-sized content, with TMZ pioneering the short-form blog post to break news, and influencers using their own authentic voice to gain audience trust.
    — Angelica Kalika, The Conversation, 2 June 2026
  • The approach reframes their brands not as properties to lease out, but positions each as having the potential to generate films, series, documentaries, digital and short-form content — and long-term brand awareness.
    — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 12 May 2026
  • Meta, YouTube and nearly every major consumer platform eventually redesigned products around the short-form video feeds pioneered by ByteDance.
    — Truebridge Capital, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • All of that development comes as OpenAI made the notable move to step back from the video segment of the market, shutting down its popular short-form video Sora app in a cost-cutting move.
    — Michelle Castillo, CNBC, 19 May 2026

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