Example sentences for: abbreviated

How can you use “abbreviated” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • It does not take much ingenuity to translate ambrex as handbrakes, but the real difficulty arises when a two-part noun is abbreviated and the wrong half, so to speak, is discarded.

  • One is the (highly abbreviated) autobiography.

  • Having supplied members with a summary of those rules, the secretary felt compelled to append this note: "Please do NOT correspond with the writer about the ambiguities that are unresolved in the above abbreviated description.

  • (To check out the abbreviated Web version of Benetton's death-row advertorial, click here.)

  • Or cobber , a now obsolescent word for a friend, or digger , which began as a term for a goldminer, then inexplicably became a term for an Australian or New Zealand soldier in WWI and is now similarly obsolescent, even in the abbreviated term of address dig .


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