Use "foreshortening" in a sentence

1. Considering the apparent foreshortening of time as one searches back into biblical ancient history, the six chapters that it took to move forward to Abraham from the flood of Noah, might fit into the two hundred years’ difference between Abraham’s stay in Haran and the earliest discovered copy (1,900 BC) of the Gilgamesh Epic

2. Each must be prepared to compromise something in the way of optimizing his stroke for the overall benefit of the boat—the shorter-armed man reaching a little farther, the longer-armed man foreshortening his reach just a bit—so that both men’s oars remain parallel and both blades enter and exit the water at precisely the same moment