Example sentences for: shorthand

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

  • One regular precaution before driving out into the boonies used to be marking a giant "TV" with adhesive tape on the back and side windows, which we believed was easy-to-spot shorthand for "don't shoot, I'm a reporter."

  • The shorthand argument is that "money isn't speech."

  • ' 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.

  • 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."

  • Overworked language, no doubt, but effective shorthand that communicates how St. Louis has been stripped of its vitality as people and businesses have moved to the suburbs.


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