Example sentences for: shorthand

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

  • ' Meanwhile, the picture of the grain sheaf was itself to be replaced by a shorthand version, and that is where things begin to get complicated.

  • After presenting various systems of communication (signs, pictographs, rebuses, shorthand, tallies, Babylonian clay tokens, Peruvian quipus), Robinson discusses such ancient and now defunct but decipherable writing systems as Sumerian cuneiform, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Minoan Greek Linear B, and Mayan glyphs; ditto some of the more outstanding conundra awaiting decipherment--Cretan Linear A, Proto-Elamite, Etruscan, and the Easter Island and Indus scripts.

  • Dole speaks in shorthand?

  • Weisberg may have been misled by a poorly reported story in a local newspaper that confused discussions about the various shorthand versions of our name.

  • Largely ignoring Trent Lott--good advice for all--many News Quiz participants assumed that shorthand for Ronald Reagan is senility, and shorthand for Steve Martin is the old arrow through the head bit, which he performed back when he was still--oh, cruel, cruel participants!


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