Example Sentences

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After all, the irrigation water and poisonous chemicals necessary to keep the playing fields luxuriantly green at all times are abetting ecological disaster.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2022

Ms. Iglehart’s passions are abetting and enabling her husband’s passions.

From New York Times • Apr. 7, 2017

“We have to find a way to address some of these factors and conditions that are abetting and allowing these movements to grow.”

From New York Times • Dec. 28, 2014

Nevertheless, there’s a case to be made that journalists publishing information from these leaks are abetting an “act of censorship, directed at Sony.”

From Slate • Dec. 17, 2014

And when we stand meekly by and see evil destroy our health, our hopes, our happiness, our homes, without a protest, we are abetting the devil in his work.

From The Pastor's Son by Walter, William W.