SHORTHAND in a Sentence

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Example sentences for SHORTHAND, such as:

1. I have heard her use the same tone when reading her shorthand notes.
2. And there is also something about the shorthand symbols that makes it different from writing.
3. He and I sometimes write letters in shorthand, and he is keeping a stenographic journal of his travels abroad.

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 Meanings and Examples of SHORTHAND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
shorthand
 n.  brief or shortened way of saying or doing something
Classic Sentence:
1  He and I sometimes write letters in shorthand, and he is keeping a stenographic journal of his travels abroad.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  And there is also something about the shorthand symbols that makes it different from writing.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  I have heard her use the same tone when reading her shorthand notes.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  On the piteous spectacle of the pair spending their evenings in shorthand schools and polytechnic classes, learning bookkeeping and typewriting with incipient junior clerks, male and female, from the elementary schools, let me not dwell.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
5  At last they gave it up as hopeless, and shook the dust of the shorthand schools, and the polytechnics, and the London School of Economics from their feet for ever.
Pygmalion By George Bernard Shaw
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
6  When he finished we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lestrade's pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand account.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
Example Sentence:
1  Ferguson has wrestled to bolster its standing, a possibility that seems much more remote now that its name has become shorthand for racial turmoil.