Example sentences for: abbreviated

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

  • Could that tedious description be abbreviated to “my younger brother”?

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

  • La migra is an abbreviated and slang term for the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) and the Border Patrol.

  • But the NYT fails to report that yesterday a U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction against the fee prohibitions--a story off-leaded by the LAT (this same LAT story runs inside the Post in abbreviated form).

  • The abbreviated boeuf à la mode --no geography necessary for this national plat du jour --is, of course, and as correctly described in Amelia Simmons's American Cookery, a round of Beef cooked with spices and vegetables.


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