Sentence examples for has abbreviated from inspiring English sources

-- Maybe it's a good thing for Republicans that Hurricane Gustav has abbreviated their convention.

She entrusted the visual identity to the graphic designer Liu Zhizhi, who has abbreviated the name to BNC, and chosen the three ingredients as symbols of each letter.

The right-wing critique of the newer films is that they are contemptuous of white, male and baby-boomer-era fans — and that Lucasfilm has abbreviated legacy characters' story lines and overemphasized diverse casting.

At Searle, a cardigan in superfine Italian cotton by M.A.D. Women has abbreviated sleeves (in white or fig green, $124), as does a stretch cardigan from the Gap (left, $38).

In fact, in many cases the pleasure of looking at a work of art comes from something other than illusion -- like, say, the way an artist has abbreviated the subject, employed a symbolic language, created an internal tension, or handled materials.

In the all-over category, the show includes several species of crazy quilts, with their jigsawing irregular geometries, as well as a splendid "Soldier's Quilt," fashioned from wool felt (red, black, yellow, cream and olive) in the late 19th century; it has abbreviated insignia designs and the tautness of a game board.

Today, we have abbreviated office visits that result in prescriptions to treat disease.

English has had abbreviated words ever since it began to be written down.

Last season Duke Of Marmalade was inhibited by the residual effects of the surgery that had abbreviated his juvenile campaign.

Jack Cushman, an editor here, poked his head into my office to say that he associated himself with the sentiment but would not have abbreviated it that way.

4.29pm: "If anybody in my school had abbreviated there name with an 'i' they'd need to have been very big or very fast.