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Example sentences for "abides"

Lexicographically close words:
abhors; abidden; abide; abided; abiden; abideth; abiding; abidingly; abiit; abilitie
  1. Pisistratean editor, then of two things one--either Mr. Leaf abides by his enthusiastic belief in the excellency of the composition, or he does not.

  2. When God puts His Spirit into our hearts He abides with us for ever.

  3. He abides in us as the Deliverer from all sin.

  4. One great interest abides here, of course--the manufacture of Bourbon whiskey.

  5. The rule of inexorable justice is set forth in strongest language by the Greek tragedians, as when Aeschylus says, "It abides, while Jove abides through the series of ages, that he who has done a deed shall suffer for it.

  6. From being the aggressed the Greeks became the aggressors; to free their Asiatic countrymen is now the chief object or pretext for the continuation of a war so profitable; the chief command of which abides with Sparta until B.

  7. And, "He who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.

  8. No young nor pretty face abides within these walls, for thy poor friend's amusement.

  9. It is amazing into what familiar habits of intimacy I and the misery that abides with me have fallen.

  10. Puritan I am and shall always be, so long as the heart of a child, which abides in every man, remains open.

  11. I can still remember the rage in my heart as I came into her salon that night of the final rupture that calls out the primitive criminal which abides in all of us.

  12. But there were none but enemies there, nor any to speak in behalf of our Lord to the town; wherefore, though we have done as we could, yet Mansoul abides in a state of rebellion against thee.

  13. It is the greatest, the richest of graces, and that which abides for ever.

  14. Yet it abides a flint as much as 'twere Before it touched the water, or came there Its hard obdurateness is not abated, 'Tis not at all by water penetrated.

  15. Our greatest difficulty abides in the fact that, as we have seen, a vigorous spiritual life must give scope to the emotions.

  16. Their value--or the value of any work of art which the foreconscious has contrived--abides wholly in the content: the quality of the material thus worked up.

  17. The success of Christianity as a world-religion largely abides in the way in which it meets this need.

  18. God is a tranquil Being, and abides in a tranquil eternity.

  19. Like David, it 'abides under the shadow of the Almighty.

  20. But I find in Erasmus, my darling, that he detests and abhors the errors and heresies that Tyndale plainly teaches and abides by, and therefore Erasmus, my darling, shall be my darling still.

  21. In short, Achilles abides by his determination as announced to his mother in the first Book of the Iliad, and goes further.

  22. As Aias says to Achilles, "a man accepts recompense of his brother's murderer, or for his dead son; and so the manslayer for a great price abides in his own land.

  23. The Lord of all beings abides in the region of the heart,--causing all beings to revolve by his illusion as though mounted on a machine.

  24. And in that fact, Leon, abides a secret which has been of vast importance to me, and shall be to you.

  25. It is not the dog, nor his spirit, that abides in the mind and assails the conscience.

  26. It abides there to be recognized and fulfilled by all beings endowed with moral perception and freedom.

  27. Yet I, the soothsayer among them, that have wrought no evil, shall fall even as they, for no grace abides for good deeds done.

  28. For she comes not often in sight of the wooers in the house, but abides apart from them in her upper chamber, and weaves at her web.

  29. But he is injured who abides in his error and ignorance.

  30. In the same way the Turumti or red-headed merlin abides with us all the year round, while the common merlin (Aesalon regulus) visits us only in winter.

  31. Some strange potency abides within the soil of this earth!

  32. So Doctor North left his secret mark upon the neighbourhood--as all of us do, for good or for ill, upon our neighbourhoods, in accordance with the strength of that character which abides within us.

  33. But Râmânuja in replying to this criticism seems to depart from the older view, for he says that the Supreme Being voluntarily abides in four forms which include the soul, mind and the principle of individuality.

  34. As the name of the deity they derive it from vas to dwell, he in whom all things abide and who abides in all.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "abides" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.