How to Use shorthand in a Sentence

shorthand

noun

• For decades, the term Dixie was shorthand for the South.
  — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 24 Sep. 2020
• Does the shorthand and trust the two of you have built up now enable you to take more risks on-screen?
  — Olivia-Anne Cleary, Variety, 28 July 2023
• The shorthand the two had with each other played a role in the comfortable, deep bounce of the song.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 15 Oct. 2021
• The stickers make use of the region’s area code — 956 — shorthand for the Rio Grande Valley.
  — Erika De Los Reyes, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Aug. 2022
• There's a lot of stuff that just became shorthand between Justin and I over the years.
  — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, 16 June 2021
• In shorthand, there’s a chance for Tatis to take two big bites of the apple because of his age.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2020
• White House Fact Sheets are the best available shorthand.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 4 Aug. 2021
• There are so many slang and shorthand terms used online.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• The shorthand for the villain in so many films is just a Southern accent.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 22 Apr. 2021
• Anyway, that shorthand is just to describe the archetype of a guy like that who’s a boy genius.
  — Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 10 Aug. 2021
• His name has become shorthand for rap as high art, fraught as that may be.
  — Paul Thompson, Vulture, 12 May 2022
• Too bad for Gore: The meme became shorthand for the notion that he couldn’t be trusted.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2023
• Few streamers can claim to be a shorthand for an entire era of 2010s hip-hop.
  — Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2022
• As a kind of shorthand, Miyazaki is often called the Walt Disney of Japan.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• In a town that loves acronyms, SALT, shorthand for state and local taxes, is on the table.
  — Alan Fram, ajc, 18 Sep. 2021
• There's a shorthand, and to know one another that deeply to be both friends and siblings is so great.
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 26 Aug. 2021
• The entire proceeding was open to the public and recorded in full in shorthand.
  — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 25 May 2022
• For too long, tourism has been a shorthand for worldliness.
  — Los Angeles Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• Spro, barista shorthand for espresso, was a rare haven for coffee purists.
  — Christina Tkacik, baltimoresun.com, 27 July 2021
• Matching sets and flashy suits are an easy, impactful shorthand for the queen bee.
  — Sarah Spellings, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2022
• For a while, a triple-digit move for the Dow also used to be an easy shorthand way to show the stock market was having a big day.
  — Alex Veiga, Quartz, 26 Feb. 2024
• One truth that Brand and his colleagues have come to accept is that the shelter count will always be a kind of shorthand.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 30 July 2022
• Of course, Martin and Short have a great rapport, a kind of comedic shorthand and flawless timing.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2021
• The pair have their own shorthand, expressed through a concerned look, grimace or grin.
  — Vincent T. Davis, San Antonio Express-News, 15 Feb. 2021
• In many places, maslins were such a part of life that the local word for them became shorthand for anything that was a mixture.
  — Gemma Tarlach, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2022
• So important that they’re often used as shorthand for the whole damn thing.
  — Josh Lieb, The New Yorker, 6 Aug. 2024
• They’re stored more deeply, more securely, when put to paper, even in my brand of shorthand.
  — Elaine Ayala, San Antonio Express-News, 24 Dec. 2021
• The phrase became a shorthand around town, where many took it as Cassandra’s vision of their fate.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
• The phrase is now used in scientific papers as a shorthand for the technique.
  — Sigal Samuel, Vox, 21 Nov. 2024
• But in the margin of the files, that place where a separate truth often flourished, Old Jim read a shorthand on the alligators that gave them a different origin.
  — Jeff Vandermeer, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Dec 2024