Sentence examples for initial stood from inspiring English sources
Aaron J. Ruben — he told an interviewer that he never knew what his middle initial stood for — was born on March 1, 1914, in Chicago.
Johnnie L Cochran (the middle initial stood for nothing) was born in a small town in Louisiana, the son of a pipe fitter who became an executive in an insurance company and moved the family to the northern California suburb of Alameda.
Most had learned little about him during his first dozen years at the firm -- few knew that his first initial stood for Ernest -- and many had considered him out of contention for a top job after he was selected as chief financial officer in 1998.
(The initials stood for "trombone 'n' tenor").
His family knew what the initials stood for: Mad Dog Industries.
Insiders joked that its initials stood for "no such agency".
"It all started with a reader who didn't know what the initials stood for.
Priced at a hefty $400, consumers jibed that its initials stood for "Idiots price our devices".
The client was called the principal, and the initials stood for Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities.
(He was fond of telling interviewers that the initials stood for "Sa Majesté Hayek" — "His Royal Highness Hayek").
The initials stood for Spics With Attitude, a riff on NWA, an early West Coast rap group.
