Sab.
abbreviation
Sabbath.
Sab.
Americanabbreviation
sab
British
/ sæb /
noun
Etymology
Origin of sab
C20: shortened from saboteur
Example Sentences
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Sab. 23d.—It seems to me that this truth alone, there is a God, is sufficient, rightly believed, to make every human being absolutely and perfectly happy.
From The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss by George L. Prentiss
She said the incident had not put her off being a sab and declared she was "not going anywhere".
From BBC ● Apr. 26, 2023
In one scene, she says: “Yeh sab mujhe pasand hai, bhaut pasand hai.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 26, 2011
The song he was upon was Li Chastel d' Amors, which runs— Las portas son de parlar Al eissir e al entrar: Qui gen non sab razonar, Defors li ven a estar.
From The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Henry Hewlett
It's vain to comfort me, Willie, Sair grief maun ha'e its will; But let me rest upon your briest To sab and greet my fill.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Bliss Carman
She just gi'ed a sab and was by wi' it.
From Weir of Hermiston by Robert Louis Stevenson
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