Example sentences for: shorthand

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

  • In the fourteenth paragraph, the Post stops to explain something: "the Y stands for 'year,' and 2K is shorthand for 2000."

  • The "value of a premature death avoided," then, should be understood as shorthand for "the value of a statistical premature death avoided."

  • Today, we can see Michael Jackson's ever more bleached complexion as a shorthand for pop's history: He's the first black singer to become his own white cover version--to start out as Little Richard and transmogrify into Pat Boone.

  • Second, we use an arrow with a starred circle as a tail to mean 'produces' to correspond to commonly used shorthand for saying that a commodity is produced where the specific mechanism of production is either unknown or not germane to the model.

  • On the 10 th anniversary of the liberation of Eastern Europe, we often refer to that event in shorthand as the "fall of the Berlin Wall."


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