How to Use alphabetic in a Sentence

alphabetic

adjective
  • For some deaf-blind patients, tracing alphabetic letters on palms with a finger may be an option.
    — Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2020
  • While many albums here topped charts, these are personal picks, in alphabetical order by artist name.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 16 Dec. 2020
  • In a non-alphabetic language, some or all of them would be depicted by a single symbol, rather than a string of phonemes.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
  • This season is only the second time that all alphabetic names have been used up—the last time was in 2005.
    — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020
  • The device did not possess an alphabetic keyboard.
    — Chris Anderson, USA Today, 15 Apr. 2026
  • Here is an alphabetic look at a handful of them, competition that in some cases will likely carry over to fall camp.
    — Tom Layberger, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Take, for instance, switching from the alphabetic keyboard to the numeric one.
    — Christina Bonnington, WIRED, 28 May 2014
  • Arranging names in alphabetical order is a kind of algorithm; so is a recipe for making chocolate chip cookies.
    — Dina Bass, Bloomberg.com, 11 Dec. 2020
  • So how could China make its characters fit into a world dominated by alphabetic languages?
    — Hugo Restall, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2022
  • Here is an alphabetic look at the other nine former quarterbacks coaching at their alma mater at the FBS level.
    — Tom Layberger, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • Our vocal tract, with its singular configuration of tubes, evolved to expel an alphabetic array of speech sounds at an astonishing rate.
    — Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2021
  • And no, they're never named after a particular person or in a particular alphabetic sequence.
    — Christina Maxouris, CNN, 13 July 2019
  • The ballot also will include a list of replacement candidates in randomized alphabetic order.
    — Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2021
  • Alabama - likely bolstered by its first-in-the-country alphabetic spot - was ranked ahead of Arizona, Georgia and Virginia.
    — Leada Gore, AL.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • They are also not permitted to name their children after an obscene word, use non-alphabetic characters or special characters in other languages such as letters with accents.
    — Dallas News, 3 July 2019
  • The Olmsted Falls resident loves nature and that is clearly shown in his alphabetic books of birds, beasts, botanicals, bugs, butterflies and dog breeds, each in vivid colors.
    — Mark Holan/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland.com, 16 July 2017
  • Prior to this there was the shift from the antique Near Eastern forms of writing, such as cuneiform or hieroglyph on heavy non-portable medium, to alphabetic script on papyrus.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 5 Jan. 2013
  • In fact, the order that the countries marched in was alphabetic – but following the Korean alphabet known as Hangeul, as opposed to the English alphabet.
    — Kate Samuelson, Time, 11 Feb. 2018
  • As the episode kindly notes, the children were named in alphabetical order, which reminds us that Anthony (Jonathan Bailey) is the eldest, and that Daphne is the fourth-born.
    — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The International Astronomical Union has an alphabetic list of existing names, as well as a searchable database.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Know, 8 Oct. 2019
  • So what if the alphabetic language is incorporating pictorial elements?
    — Crispin Sartwell, WSJ, 22 Sep. 2017
  • Researchers cataloged the possible characters and their variations to infer the nature of the system — alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, etc.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2019
  • In addition to using alphabetic writing, people in Huarochirí were recording information with Inka-style khipus into the 20th century.
    — Bridget Alex, Discover Magazine, 4 Jan. 2019
  • At the time, Champollion, Young and their peers had mainly worked with alphabetic languages like English and French, in which individual letters and groups of letters represent different sounds.
    — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Their formation has already put the season halfway through the alphabetical list of available storm names—a clear sign that 2020 is meeting forecasts for a very active season amid a disastrous pandemic and major economic uncertainty.
    — Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 25 Aug. 2020
  • The 14-year-old eighth-grader at El Rancho Charter School in Anaheim correctly spelled her first-round word, Hangul, the alphabetic script in which Korean is written.
    — City News Service, Oc Register, 26 May 2026
  • When the fourth-generation Integra arrived in 2001, Acura was well into using alphabetic names exclusively and the model was rebranded as RSX.
    — Sam Abuelsamid, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025

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