How to Use truncate in a Sentence

truncate

verb
  • But that detour is not the end of the road for efforts to truncate due process.
    — Joe Davidson | Columnist, Washington Post, 12 May 2017
  • Why rush it in a season that figures to be truncated at best?
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2020
  • Some are empowered and evolved and some are truncated and lost.
    — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 14 Oct. 2025
  • Too-early high school start times then truncate teen sleep in the morning, so that sleep is squeezed at both ends.
    — Julie Wright, WSJ, 26 Mar. 2022
  • Things had to be truncated or moved around, but a lot of the favorite moments have made it in.
    — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Metro said the decision on where to truncate trips was based on stations with the least riders.
    — Washington Post, 18 Sep. 2020
  • There are no shortcuts available to Yazidis -- no way to truncate our trauma.
    — Nadia Murad, CNN, 16 Aug. 2021
  • Or, lawmakers could choose to delay or truncate such programs to lower the cost.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 6 Oct. 2021
  • As the royals stood in the balcony, jets streaked overhead, in a flyby that was truncated due to the weather.
    — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 6 May 2023
  • Nothing about this moment felt truncated.
    — Robyn Mowatt, Essence, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Her figures are truncated and pushed over the edges of the frame, faces often obscured or composited.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2025
  • Disney has truncated campaigns for Marvel movies for three reasons.
    — Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 19 July 2019
  • Cassidy has Bjork there, in part, as a safe harbor for the young forward, whose first two seasons here were truncated by shoulder surgery.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The endings are frequently murky and strange, often abruptly truncated.
    — Parul Sehgal, New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • For the first time in its history, the NFL season was truncated by a strike, and each team played just nine games.
    — Barry Wilner, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2019
  • Moments that should deliver a quick plot point drag on, while courtroom scenes—where Comey is clearly at home—are oddly truncated.
    — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 1 June 2023
  • The president dares not truncate this process of legal, moral and ethical decision-making.
    — U T Readers, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Dec. 2025
  • His first year was truncated by injury problems, whilst Dembele looked short of confidence for large periods last term.
    — SI.com, 20 June 2019
  • Those who show up late or not at all get removal orders, further truncating the already limited due process available to immigrants.
    — Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 May 2026
  • But agency officials are twisting the law’s language to truncate the opportunities for such suits.
    — James S. Burling, National Review, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The main event was truncated, drivers crashed more than normal due to tight turns, and fans complained about poor communication on weather updates.
    — Hank Sanders, Chicago Tribune, 4 July 2023
  • Party insiders pick a nominee, campaigns are truncated to a few short weeks, and challengers are locked out before the public ever hears their names.
    — Grace Rauh, New York Daily News, 3 Feb. 2026
  • The partners plan to truncate the Montchanin course, currently the shortest of three courses at the club, while leaving the two others at 18 holes.
    — Joseph N. Distefano, Philly.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Thwarted and truncated directorial careers are among the depressing glories of the art of movies.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Running routes get truncated, as those exercising must run laps within a radius of an accessible bomb shelter.
    — Michael M. Rosen, The Washington Examiner, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Is the president using his emergency powers to truncate a financial crisis?
    — Eleanor Mueller, semafor.com, 1 Sep. 2025
  • That’s long before a perpetrator starts their prison sentence, however truncated.
    — Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025
  • The first was truncated by a too many men penalty and the second one, at the end of the period, did not click at all and the B’s went into the third up by what felt like a slim goal.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 3 Mar. 2026
  • But truncating the speech to a few minutes can be as brutal as seeing a literary masterpiece reduced to a few lines on an inspirational greeting card.
    — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 11 June 2019
  • Then controversy sparked last spring, when Wu announced that the outdoor dining season would be truncated to five months and that the privilege would come with a fee.
    — Diti Kohli, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Mar. 2023

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