English vocabulary examples in context: abbreviation
Vocabulary in context: abbreviation -- Example 1.
As an abbreviation, his companions called him Bossuet.
Vocabulary in context: abbreviation -- Example 2.
His name was Nebuchadnezzar, but he only answered to the familiar abbreviation of Neb.
Vocabulary in context: abbreviation -- Example 3.
Pequod with the little negro Pippin by nick-name, Pip by abbreviation.
Vocabulary in context: abbreviation -- Example 4.
Moreover, the natural corruptness of her speech overcoming her implacable republicanism, she still said instinctively 'the de La Tremoilles,' or, rather (by an abbreviation sanctified by the usage of music-hall singers and the writers of the 'captions' beneath caricatures, who elide the 'de'), 'the d'La Tremoilles,' but she corrected herself at once to 'Madame La Tremoille.
Vocabulary in context: abbreviation -- Example 5.
If the name of Dick--an abbreviation of Richard--had been given to the little orphan, it was because it was the name of the charitable passer-by who had picked him up two or three hours after his birth.
Vocabulary in context: abbreviation -- Example 6.
The other blacks were young men from twenty-five to thirty years old, whose names were Bat (abbreviation of Bartholomew), son of old Tom, Austin, Acteon, and Hercules, all four well made and vigorous, and who would bring a high price in the markets of Central Africa.
Vocabulary in context: abbreviation -- Example 7.
The old prince, now and then using abbreviations, wrote in his large elongated hand on blue paper as follows: Have just this moment received by special messenger very joyful news- if it's not false.
