Example sentences for: abbreviated

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

  • When the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms moved from the Department of the Treasury to the Department of Justice after 9/11 in connection with the creation of DHS, it was renamed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (still abbreviated ATF); see ATF press release,"ATF Moves to the Department of Justice," Jan.

  • 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.

  • A slightly abbreviated listing of the procedures for each of the solutes used in this paper is included in additional file 1.

  • Names of apples like cleopatra and democrat, of potatoes like bintje, black derwent, and kennebec, carry a Tasmanian stamp (in Australia at any rate), as does the mutton bird (the shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris )—which has given Tasmanian English the verb mutton bird or in its abbreviated form bird, as well as lexical oddities like dizz (`cook a mutton bird') for those foolhardy enough to contemplate such a feat.

  • Pressure waveforms were significantly abbreviated with dobutamine compared to high perfusate calcium (total waveform duration: 100 ± 15 vs 125 ± 0 ms, p < 0.01).


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