How to Use abbreviated in a Sentence

abbreviated

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• Ukwuachu was sentenced to six months in jail, but served an abbreviated sentence.
  — NBC News, 6 June 2018
• 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
• Here’s a sample from an abbreviated, unofficial version of the test.
  — Lacy Schley, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2018
• But Barreiro stepped down right away in order to set up an abbreviated, low-turnout special election that would favor the wife of the long-time commissioner.
  — David Smiley and Sarah Blaskey, miamiherald, 20 June 2018
• An abbreviated video released by the Pentagon on May 10 detailed parts of the ambush.
  — New York Times, 29 May 2018
• Fox has renewed Batman prequel drama Gotham for a fifth and likely abbreviated final season.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 May 2018
• The day’s only abbreviated practice session was so short that not all cars made it to the track during the practice, and the most active during the period completed only four laps.
  — Mike Hembree, USA TODAY, 18 May 2018
• High school seniors had already graduated, and only a handful of underclassmen trickled in for the abbreviated school day.
  — Debbie Truong, Washington Post, 1 July 2018
• After analyzing the data from that abbreviated test, the company concluded that a communications glitch on the ground had cut the flight short.
  — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 22 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The abbreviated 2020 schedule doesn’t look too bad from the A’s perspective.
  — Susan Slusser, SFChronicle.com, 8 July 2020
• 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
• The last two years, the Angels left-handed pitcher struggled in abbreviated big league stints.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 24 July 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: 26 Sep 2024