And you, too, look well, notwithstanding the hotel life you abhor so.
We shall never make any conjunction with these abominable Popish idolaters, at home or abroad, in armies or otherwise; and shall, according to our National Covenant, detest and abhor all their wicked superstitious rites and ceremonies.
And in the National Covenant to abhor and detest the Antichristian wicked Hierarchy," &c.
I could shed my blood joyfully for my country, or something like that; but fighting of any other sort is low and degrading and I abhor it--I abhor it.
Delicate in eating, and abhor from putting their hand in the plate; sooner they will apply a crust or what not.
The Mussulmans, who, like you, profess toabhor Heathenism, kiss the stone of the Caaba: a Pagan practice.
As for Suicide, I do condemn it, and abhor it utterly, as the most cowardly, Dishonest, and unworthy Method to which a Man can resort that he may rid himself of his Difficulties.
They do not mean to justify slavery; theyabhor and hate it; they regard it as economically, socially, politically, and morally wrong.
You, my creator, abhor me; what hope can I gather from your fellow-creatures, who owe me nothing?
How they would, each and all, abhor me, and hunt me from the world, did they know my unhallowed acts, and the crimes which had their source in me!
Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment and pervert all equity.
Serve self and it will plunge you in, and drag you through, the ditch, till your own clothes abhor you.
Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into thine house, lest thou be a cursed thing like it: but thou shalt utterly detest it, and thou shalt utterly abhor it; for it is a cursed thing.
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
Do not abhor us, for thy name's sake, do not disgrace the throne of thy glory: remember, break not thy covenant with us.
The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein.
The principal reason why we abhor so much the term slavery is, the base cruelty with which some tyrant slaveholders, for there are wicked slaveholders as well as wicked husbands and masters, have treated their slaves.
We abhor these Rebels as much as the Black Republicans (a voice: 'We can give the Rebels what they want!
A voice: 'We abhor these Rebels as much as the Black Republicans!
They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face.
Achish believed David, saying, He has made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant forever.
I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
Therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
Please listen to this, you heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice, and pervert all equity.
I will set my tent among you: and my soul won't abhor you.
You shall not abhor an Edomite; for he is your brother: you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
For before the child knows to refuse the evil, and choose the good, the land whose two kings you abhor shall be forsaken.
You shall not bring an abomination into your house, and become a devoted thing like it: you shall utterly detest it, and you shall utterly abhor it; for it is a devoted thing.
Why I did it I have not the remotest idea, for I abhor those locomotive engines of exquisite discomfort.
If there is a thing I should abhor it would be to be shaken up.
The only true way is, by slow degrees to create a state of feeling which shall instinctively abhor and cast off the evil.
And lastly, which is of the greatest importance for preserving vigour, they should abhor pleasures, the sure destruction of the body, as much as they desire a green old age.
They abhortriumphal hymns if mingled with funeral lamentations, and would reject a victory accompanied by the sighs of one mourning widow or orphan.
She might abhor her husband, her marriage, and the world to which it had introduced her, but she had become a product of that world in its outward expression, and no better proof of the fact was needed than her exotic enjoyment of Americanism.
We abhor divorce--we go against our religion in consenting to it--and nothing short of recovering the boy could possibly justify us.
I have sacrificed all, and I knew that you would abhor me.
Miserable, ambitious egoist, I abhor you more than I have ever loved you!
Such a man shall you pity and hate, abhoryet love, in the Robber Moor.
I already abhor you as a villain; let me not despise you for a fool.
Not eaten by the Aborigines, who greatly abhor them, as they do also the sting-ray.
This fish is not eaten by the natives, who abhor it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abhor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
