Example sentences for: acronym

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

  • It's true that the Public Intellectuals Program--didn't anyone notice that the acronym is PIP?

  • It should preferably be French in origin, since that may lessen potential irritation in Brussels at the fact that the acronym invariably represents an English word sequence.

  • The new items, pinstriper and Planet X, are, not surprisingly, both drawn from the BDC , which provided the actual citation for pinstriper and the date of earliest occurrence for Planet X. It seems likely that the increasingly common acronym PIN , for personal identification number , issued by banks as a unique identifier for customers who use automatic teller machines (yes, ATM is in), which was in BDC was passed over for TBDNE because it appears as an entry in the Random House Unabridged Second Edition (1987), though ATM is an entry in all three.

  • The Feldmans suggest that other acronym books take themselves too seriously.

  • Nash's breakthrough in game theory got him recruited by the Rand Corp., which was then a secretive military think tank in Santa Monica (its name is an acronym for "research and development").


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