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How to use short fuse in a sentence

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The Conservative leader is formidable, a successful barrister with a good grasp of detail, albeit with a well-documented short fuse.
Yet he has a very short fuse, perhaps the inevitable result of coping with his blindness in such a pressurised job.
However, I have my weaknesses, and one of them is that I have a pretty short fuse when I think someone is questioning my limits.
He had a short fuse and would sometimes berate her when she spoke too much to Gluck.
He had a very short fuse and he could be totally irrational at times.
I cut kids a lot of slack, because, whatever, they're 5 years old, but I have a very short fuse, at least internally, with people who should know better.
He now has a very short fuse so far as temper tantrums are concerned.
He is still a bruiser in the paint, with an unpredictable biorhythm and an occasionally short fuse.
He has a short fuse and when pushed may become loud, rigid and domineering, bringing a high level of stress to the team or his peers.
There is a short fuse and a certain explosion at the end of this piece of treachery.
Santoro simply outlasted Safin's short fuse.
I had a short fuse when it came to critics just as he did.
It's not to save old buildings,' Lambert says irately, when I suggest as much-she has a short fuse for wrong-headed ideas.
Her friends and allies all know that Bonnie did have a certain short fuse.
It didn't matter than Francis was a diplomat in every sense of the word and Morial was known for his short fuse and speaking his mind.
Eid is renowned for his short fuse, which saw him red carded so many times in the past few years.
When items are out of stock or the queues are long, people are often stressed and have a very short fuse.
I've got a short fuse, so I know why Greg reacted as he did.
He has a really short fuse and gets angry and shouts at the least thing.
If people say that you've got a short fuse, you might want to calm down.
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I offered to show them how to throw a smoke bomb, and they gave me one with an extra short fuse.
Don't treat business as though it were a lighted fire-cracker with a short fuse.
The next moment Dan had held the end of the short fuse he had provided to the candle, and a slight spluttering began.
Grief touched the short fuse to his cigarette and threw the stick.
Besides the alarm, theres a little surprise on a short fuse.
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