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Example sentences for: abbreviation

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

In 1933, however, some writer mysteriously decides that a new word is needed to represent the pronunciation of the abbreviation.
First, surf as a verb [1913] seems to be an abbreviation of the now obsolete surf-bathe [1906].
We chose to retrieve entries containing the official gene name, abbreviation or aliases in the title field.
Diesenhaus described his use of a slogan and abbreviation for a treatment strategy, "Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral-SBIR."
a word (as the noun book), hyphened or open compound (as the verb book-match or the noun book review), word element (as the affix pro-), abbreviation (as agt), verbalized symbol (as Na), or term (as man in the street) entered alphabetically in a dictionary for the purpose of definition or identification or expressly included as an inflected form (as the noun mice or the verb saw) or as a derived form (as the noun godlessness or the adverb globally) or related phrase (as one for the book) run on at its base word and usu.