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Example sentences for "abominate"

Lexicographically close words:
abolitionist; abolitionists; abolitionize; abominable; abominably; abominated; abomination; abominations; abondance; abone
  1. I perfectly abominate that woman," she said, going back to the hearth rug.

  2. I rarely abominate anybody, and I think she knows that also.

  3. If one of them should get a book published before either of the other two, they would probably both abominate him in good earnest.

  4. These two worthies, instead of being, as we imagined in Paris, the best of friends, abominate each other.

  5. Myra Ingleby hid her face behind her garden hat; and Garth Dalmain whispered to Jane: "I do abominate irrelevance, and you know it!

  6. I do abominate irrelevance, and you know it!

  7. Yea, we abominate those that make mention of their great suppers with too luscious a gust, as men overmuch taken with mean and abject delights.

  8. I loathe and abominate the country, sir--so rude and savage!

  9. I don't believe in honeymoons and particularly I abominate the inhuman custom of giving wedding presents.

  10. As to the rest, I abominate that incidental repentance which old age brings along with it.

  11. I abominate those mad exhortations of this other discomposed soul, "Dum tela micant, non vos pietatis imago Ulla, nec adversa conspecti fronte parentes Commoveant; vultus gladio turbate verendos.

  12. Generally we abominate apostrophes; but this is not so bad.

  13. I do abominate women's verses, I confess; but there are such multitudes of poetesses that Nature may sometimes blunder in their production, and make one of them of the stuff intended for a poet.

  14. I have no comments, except to say that he has removed all my difficulties, and that now and for evermore I give up and abominate Glen Roy and all its belongings.

  15. I abominate also the waste of time (and it would take me a day) in making an abstract.

  16. I hate every tomb--I abominate wills, And rather than tears from the world to implore, I would ask of the crows with their vampire bills To devour every bit of my carcass impure.

  17. I have no bowels for hypocrisy, and I abominate and detest kingship.

  18. I abominate and detest hangmanship; but in certain stages of society both are necessary.

  19. We abominate the Deities who patronize them, and we hurl down the images of the monsters.

  20. But "the pen is so constantly in my fingers that I abominate the sight of it!

  21. Much as I abominate writing, I would not give up Mr. Collins's correspondence for any consideration.

  22. I abominate those people who are always right.

  23. I abominate the idea of equality, and to be mentally slapped on the shoulder and told I am "a good fellow.

  24. I suppose that you must mean foreign war, if I am to judge from expressions of yours in which you say that you abominate those 'Who refuse to look upon fields of blood, and will not draw near and strike at their enemies.

  25. And our warmth will not have been in vain, if we have succeeded in persuading these men to abominate themselves, and to change their ways.

  26. You say that you abominate 'those who are not eager to taste their enemies' blood,' and you seem to mean chiefly their foreign enemies.

  27. I despise and abominate him, because he is a man without honor; he knows that I do not love him, and yet he insists upon marrying me.

  28. If it were not so, if I did not despise and abominate him, I would not receive his suit and marry him.

  29. Of these, fried eggplants and cabbage boiled with corn-beef on the American system of boiling, that is to say, cooking, I abominate the most.

  30. I abominate the idea of frying eggs in water as the Americans do.

  31. It taught him to abominate selfish brutality and sneaking falsehood, as they were exhibited in the Murdstones and the Heeps; it taught him to keep Charles I.

  32. I abominate girls as a rule; I never talk to them.

  33. Hermia; “I abominate that sort of thing, and I will not go.

  34. I abominate a conqueror; but I do not think he makes the world much compensation, by cutting the throats of his Protestant subjects to atone for the massacres caused by his ambition.

  35. I abominate politics more and more; we had glories, and would not keep them: well!

  36. I shall abominate you, I shall not let you come into my sight!

  37. Certainly, if you will have it so--though I abominate hurry in all things.


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