How to Use shorthand in a Sentence

shorthand

noun

• 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 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 are so many slang and shorthand terms used online.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 1 July 2023
• 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
• As a kind of shorthand, Miyazaki is often called the Walt Disney of Japan.
  — Sam Anderson, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2023
• The entire proceeding was open to the public and recorded in full in shorthand.
  — Tripti Lahiri, Quartz, 25 May 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
• 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
• 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
• This was shorthand often used by Pa and Mummy and Grandpa.
  — Rosa Sanchez, Harper's BAZAAR, 10 Jan. 2023
• The name Einstein is often used as shorthand for genius.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 27 Apr. 2023
• The kiwi — a native bird so beloved by New Zealanders that its name has long been a shorthand for them — once roamed throughout the country.
  — Pete McKenzie, New York Times, 4 Dec. 2023
• That includes the corn fields [shorthand for demoting Kim to doc review].
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 23 May 2022
• Read full article In my own life, Smash Mouth is shorthand for childlike joy.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Sep. 2023
• In later years, the poodle skirt became visual shorthand for the entire decade.
  — Margalit Fox, New York Times, 4 Mar. 2024
• Two big, scary mammals that serve as Wall Street shorthand for the stock market's general mood.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 14 June 2022
• While Medicare doesn’t regulate their use, many EMS billing services use lights and sirens as shorthand for which code to choose.
  — Marion Renault, STAT, 7 July 2023
• Whether topped with hills of Cotija cheese, or a silky salsa verde, or handfuls of herbs, the dish is a shorthand for deliciousness.
  — New York Times, 27 Apr. 2022
• In many election cycles, there’s a snappy shorthand used to describe the type of voters who may help decide the winner.
  — Sara Burnett, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
• Try to avoid any shorthand your recipient won’t understand, and have grace when your dad sends a winky face.
  — Tatum Hunter, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
• The shorthand phrase is frequently used both in discussions about goings on in the NFL and the careers of attorneys who have come from its ranks.
  — Chris Deubert, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• And Coolidge herself has felt doubt at times during the project, when the shorthand she and her collaborator White share flickers out of range.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 4 Aug. 2022
• The Carrots logo has become a shorthand for the spirit of the collab in its own right, and not just in traditional streetwear or fashion.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
• Or, to use the shorthand heard by police officers responding to the insurrection: The United States is in a Code 10-33.
  — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 14 Oct. 2022
• But the real arbiter of such things is the National Bureau of Economic Growth, which doesn’t do shorthand.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 26 July 2022
• Why choose a vague word as the smug shorthand for something morally objectionable?
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
• In the visual grammar of film, a 747 touching down on a runway, heat waves warbling in the foreground, is shorthand for our character has left the country.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2023
• Purcell added, using the shorthand for a member of parliament.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024