Many are severely short of breath and cannot walk from the couch to the kitchen without feeling exhausted.

First, the regulators are still severely short staffed.

Fuel supplies were severely short, and people burned whatever they could to survive the harsh Polish winter.

His hair had been cut severely short at the time and he had worn glasses.

The negotiations broke down, and the Burmese decided to fight on despite the fact that the army was severely short of experienced men and arms.

The next day he was admitted with blood clots in his lungs, a potentially life-threatening condition that left him severely short of breath.

But he said at least one of the machines would be in severely short supply.

The station was severely short of help and the missionaries there were exhausted.

The dark hair is brushed with gray now, but it is still worn cropped severely short.

Hospitals are severely short of nurses, and several have tried, so far with little success, to import some from South Africa.