How to Use abbreviated in a Sentence

abbreviated

adjective

• The abbreviated version will be held this fall and will take place over 15 days rather than the 23-day global event.
  — Phil Marty, chicagotribune.com, 2 July 2018
• So is Shue, even in this abbreviated nothing of a role.
  — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• The front and rear overhangs are abbreviated and somewhat blunt on both ends.
  — Arv Voss, Houston Chronicle, 23 Aug. 2019
• And for the girls with more abbreviated lengths, Smith took an even more bespoke approach.
  — Lauren Valenti, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2019
• But the game Friday, Hawkins’ first in 17 months and the first of an abbreviated four-game season, wasn’t about impressing scouts.
  — Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2021
• The best plan is to let the players shake off the rust in both an abbreviated training camp and then a few regular season games first.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 14 May 2020
• That was different than the abbreviated pep band that was in attendance for the first three home games.
  — Keith Jenkins, The Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2020
• There is a big push for a four-day workweek and abbreviated workdays.
  — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2021
• The abbreviated schedule would give MPs a shorter time frame to figure out how to avoid a no-deal Brexit.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2019
• How sad that that journey came to such an abbreviated close.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Aug. 2019
• An abbreviated chop is that much more versatile in the right pair of renegade hands.
  — Calin Van Paris, Vogue, 19 Apr. 2018
• If the season does resume, teams will need some sort of abbreviated training camp, the three players said.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Mar. 2020
• Teams would play each other twice in the abbreviated 22-game schedule, which the league said would be released later.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 15 June 2020
• Mike Moustakas didn’t tear the cover off the ball in his abbreviated stint with Milwaukee in 2018.
  — Michael Shapiro, SI.com, 11 June 2019
• The abbreviated 12-team schedule is for 22 games each with the top eight advancing to playoffs.
  — Randy McRoberts, baltimoresun.com, 6 Aug. 2020
• Inside of a single game, the Jazz sagged from a long-ago pristine playoff past to a much more abbreviated recent one, in which the sledding has been rough.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 May 2021
• Back in Puerto Rico, the recovery from Maria made enough progress for four teams to hit the field for an abbreviated 21-game schedule.
  — Tom Haudricourt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2018
• Larry told an abbreviated version of this story in the spring of 2017.
  — Larry Ruhl, Longreads, 12 Apr. 2018
• In basic physics classes, we're often taught a very abbreviated and abridged version of the history, where you're given the straight line path that leads to the end.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2019
• Cox has an abbreviated schedule leading up to election day, almost all of it near his home base of San Diego.
  — John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 May 2018
• The abbreviated 2020 schedule doesn’t look too bad from the A’s perspective.
  — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2020
• But that was over four innings thanks to Martin Perez's short abbreviated start.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 29 Apr. 2018
• The second text allegedly sent by Romig was an abbreviated version of the first.
  — Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Adams arrived at Halas Hall last August when the Bears tried him out and signed him during the abbreviated training camp.
  — Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 25 Aug. 2021
• Last outing: Plutko gave up four earned runs over an abbreviated 4 1/3 innings against the Tampa Bay Rays.
  — Esten McLaren, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 6 Sep. 2019
• His black hair was pulled back in an abbreviated ponytail.
  — Pete Wells, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2018
• The last two years, the Angels left-handed pitcher struggled in abbreviated big league stints.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 2021
• Riley won 12 games in each of his first three seasons and nine in an abbreviated schedule last season.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 22 Aug. 2021
• Taillon yielded two hits and two runs in his abbreviated start, striking out two.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• For its abbreviated sixth season, Outlander was ready to bring the drama with the Christie family, new residents on Fraser's Ridge who couldn't help but bring trouble in their wake.
  — Ew Staff, EW.com, 7 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024