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Example sentences for: abbreviate

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

In World War II, the need for a general-purpose vehicle was satisfied with the development of a means of transportation referred to by the government with astonishing directness and candor as a general-purpose vehicle . The army, quick to abbreviate everything, began to refer to the vehicle as a g.p.
The province’s largest town (where it is the custom never to abbreviate “Saint” to ��St.”
It appears unlikely that this is related to a calcium overload state as diastolic pressures do not rise with high perfusate calcium or dobutamine, and pressure waveforms abbreviate with dobutamine.
In reality, police never abbreviate this rank.
Another obstacle is the book's vaguely newsmaggy format, which requires Frum to move quickly from example to example and to abbreviate his arguments.