Example sentences for: acronyms

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

  • Acronyms that contain only few letters are particularly problematic and must often be removed from the query in order to avoid high proportions of false-positive hits.

  • The World of Abbreviations and Acronyms

  • For starters, she said, Y2K is efficient, since it uses just three characters; similarly structured acronyms such as IBM, NBC, and GTE are a staple these days.

  • In the small community hospital where I teach and practice hematology and oncology, I frequently struggle to decode the abbreviations and acronyms used by house staff and medical students.

  • ' Although the editor mentions pronounceable acronyms in his Preface, users would be at a loss to determine that UN and R.A.F . are not pronounced but that R.A.D.A . (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts “RAHdah”), UNICEF, U.N.C.L.E ., and Pan-Am are; worse, the showing of radar as RADAR (for `radio detecting and ranging') and sonar as SONAR (`sound navigation and ranging') is in outright error.


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