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Example sentences for "abodes"

Lexicographically close words:
abnormally; abnormities; aboad; aboard; abode; abolish; abolished; abolishes; abolishing; abolishment
  1. Gonikaputra is of opinion however that these meetings had better be brought about in the abodes of female friends, mendicants, astrologers, and ascetics.

  2. Before a gentleman from the old country concludes to settle in the bush, let him first visit these comfortable abodes of peace and plenty.

  3. Now he turned his steps toward the residential streets and loitered along past prosperous-looking houses which, to Tom at least, might well have been the abodes of so many multi-millionaires.

  4. Later, when he chanced upon the abodes of the city’s really wealthy residents, he discovered his mistake.

  5. In order not to trespass upon the population at the mission, in their miserable abodes of mud, the church was opened, and a large number of the soldiers were quartered in it.

  6. In the main plaza hundreds, perhaps thousands, of squirrels, whose abodes are under ground, have their residences.

  7. The population of these dismal abodes appeared to consider the sidewalks and middle of the street as their common hall.

  8. What perversity is there in the human understanding, to quit the delightful and peaceful abodes of nature, for noisy towns and dusty streets.

  9. A little way from these abodes of misery and crime the saloon is open, with its gilded iniquity, warm, cheerful, and stimulated with liquid insanity in bottles and beer-kegs.

  10. They live apart from the rest, taking up their abodes in long tunnels, which they excavate.

  11. In winter it descends into the lowlands of Peru, among the abodes of men, visiting their gardens and orchards with perfect fearlessness.

  12. He wanders around the abodes of the students, knowing well the time when they will probably find it necessary to ease themselves of a portion of their wardrobe.

  13. The golden sun, The planets, all the infinite host of heaven, Are dining on the sad abodes of death, Through the still lapse of ages.

  14. I can repair to the abodes of Indra, Kuvera, Yama, and Varuna!

  15. Entering the town those heroes first went, O monarch, to the abodes of Brahmanas engaged in their proper duties.

  16. And the wells and lakes were ever full; the groves abounded with trees, and the houses and abodes of Brahmanas were full of wealth and the whole kingdom was full of festivities.

  17. A battlefield and the hospitals round it--the abodes of death and suffering.

  18. I had shown myself to be entirely useless and incapable in those abodes of misery, only a hindrance and a burden.

  19. Our gods are not the same, and the abodes of the souls of the white man and the red man are far apart.

  20. The waters that lave the thirsty sands of the seashore sink not more silently in their ebb than the Indians have disappeared from the vicinity of the abodes of white men.

  21. The vast cities of America, the fertile plains of Hindostan, the crowded abodes of the Chinese, are menaced with utter ruin.

  22. We entered London in the evening, and went to our several abodes near Hyde Park.

  23. Eremites in search of the hardest, grimmest places, selected Oxia, and pecking holes and caves in its sides, shared the abodes thus laboriously won with cormorants, the most gluttonous of birds.

  24. Farewell; I will fly to the abodes of wretchedness, and come to you to-morrow to render them the abodes of happiness.

  25. She was a lovely little ladye, With blue eyes beaming sunnily; And loved to carry charity To the abodes of misery.

  26. Tis all I have to offer you; not like the dainty repasts at which you are accustomed to sit in the abodes of wealth and fashion.

  27. They have their abodes in the Deep, but perfectly dry & comfortable.

  28. They have their abodes in the deep, but perfectly dry and comfortable.

  29. I was thinking how delightful it would be to go out into the byways of poverty, the abodes of sickness and want, and bid their inmates follow me, where comfort and ease and plenty awaited them.

  30. Now those motives no longer existed, I wrote to announce our coming, and soon after we bade adieu to one of the most charming abodes of goodness, hospitality, and pure domestic happiness I have ever known.

  31. The second station west of San Luis is Balde, a collection of straw and brushwood huts, the abodes of the peasants.

  32. The Avenida Agraciada is the main residential street, but the Avenida Brazil in the suburb of Pocitos has many fine homes, some of which are the summer abodes of Argentinos who like to spend the hottest months of the summer by the seashore.


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