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.

  • Little wonder that foreign-born Israelis, especially those who were taught old-world manners, soon learn to parrot another abbreviated sabra expression: they describe the offender as having a Padas Pa(rtsuf) d(oresh) s(tira) a face that invites a slap.

  • The NYT reports that Clinton's lawyers have offered to stipulate to certain evidence in return for an abbreviated trial.

  • 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.

  • The abbreviated time frame would force many generators to make these retrofits simultaneously.


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