Sentence examples for abbreviated forms from inspiring English sources

When some of these abbreviated forms first came into use, they also attracted criticism.

(He jeered at abbreviated forms like phiz for physiognomy, rep for reputation, and mob for the Latin phrase mobile vulgus).

In one American study, less than 20% of the text messages looked at showed abbreviated forms of any kind - about three per message.

Before you can write and play with abbreviated forms, you need to have a sense of how the sounds of your language relate to the letters.

He likens the condensed language of social media to the abbreviated forms employed by medieval scribes to speed up the process of making copies of texts, and observes that, until the 18th century, such elisions could be used without censure.

Nonetheless, questionnaires with multiple, multi-item subscales provide more detailed information than abbreviated forms.

Abbreviation (ABBR): the abbreviation feature of word w denotes whether word w is an abbreviated form of a known concept.

Raw," even in abbreviated form?

Its lead article, a footnote says, "appeared in abbreviated form in Harper's Bazaar".

The article originally appeared in Chinese, and an abbreviated form is available in English.

Below is an abbreviated form of the DebtWizard's guide to bankruptcy.