Example sentences for: acronyms

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

  • For those classmates with severe anatomy burnout (“I can't remember anything !”) we devised the acronyms teon (Two Eyes, One Nose), and, for the joints of the arm, sew (Shoulder-Elbow-Wrist).

  • Leaving aside blends and acronyms, a few representative examples (with definitions from various sources) should be sufficient:

  • Yoo would like to hear from readers who have heard or seen outrageous abbreviations or acronyms.

  • Those who specialize in this area prefer to subsume them all under the general rubric, initialism , a term quoted by the OED from the 1890s in Notes and Queries, but one that did not become current, I believe, till Gale Research Company published Acronyms and Initialisms Dictionary , in 1965.

  • In working out plans for his various front groups and fronts-within-fronts, Gingrich speaks in a language consisting almost exclusively of acronyms (COS, PFF, GOPAC, ALOF, AOW, ACT, RAC, and CONET, among others) and abstract nouns (opportunity, responsibility, civilization, vision, organization, analysis, dissemination, etc.).


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