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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:

Along the same lines, though somewhat more involved, is the word pécu `toilet paper' (from PQ , itself a punnish abbreviation of papier cul ), which has also come to mean a pompous piece of writing, with the corresponding verb pécufier .
The search for relevant literature for each individual gene is complicated by the fact that the same gene can have many different names associated with it and that the same name or abbreviation can have different meanings.
Had I needed it, a Help key should have brought an instant explanation of the symbol * and the abbreviation OE.
' ( `Intern .,' by the way, is not listed in the book as an abbreviation for `International,' only int . and intl .) On the other hand, some entries that have historical value are in (like N.R.A.
The French adopted the habit as an intensifier of musculine nouns, proper and improper, and this too became mostly pejorative, as in mouchard sneak or informer (from mouche fly), and froussard coward (from frousse fright), and bastard , a trenchant abbreviation of fils de bast pack-saddle child.