Example sentences for: abbreviation

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

  • David Galef's article, F U Cn Rd Ths [XXII,4,15], brought to mind a puzzling abbreviation I noticed on highway signs when I moved to Los Angeles some years ago.

  • became the official abbreviation.

  • Nevertheless, the practice of changing from term to abbreviation to phonetic spelling of the abbreviation is an old and continuing oddity in English.

  • Short acronyms are especially problematic (for example, 'CT', the abbreviation for 'calcitonin' can be found in the title of over 20,000 abstracts, of which only 25 contain the term 'calcitonin').

  • Diesenhaus described his use of a slogan and abbreviation for a treatment strategy, "Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral-SBIR."


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