Words similar to acronyms

Example sentences for: acronyms

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

In the early 1940s we were besieged by repl depots (pronounced REPil DEPOZe), GI , and thousands of other acronyms and abbreviations the meaning of which we learned through daily repetition on news broadcasts.
We are all familiar with the naming process, whether it be with the great relief at hearing the doctor say “muscular strain” instead of “rheumatoid arthritis” as he examines the x-rays, with the Sunday supplement newspaper article summing up (for the umpteenth time) the latest new words and acronyms, with nothing with amusement, admiration, or consternation what some people name their children, and with scores of other instances we encounter daily.
I have traveled throughout Europe, the Far East, and North America, but nowhere have I found more abbreviations and acronyms in use than in the U.S., particularly in the medical field.
More than that, the Dictionnaire gives its blessing also to several words of blatantly English stock, such as hall, drugstore , and pipeline (pronounce: pea-PLEAN), even including portmanteau words ( bit, pixel ) and acronyms ( laser, radar ).
It consists of borrowed Chinese ideograms (characters known as kanji , the hiragana syllabary used for Japanese words not covered by kanji , the katakana syllabary used for foreign words, and the Roman alphabet known as romanji usually used for abbreviations like UN and acronyms like GATT .