Example Sentences

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This pretty clearly seems like a bad situation where dishonesty and deception are abounding.

From Slate • Sep. 29, 2017

Television news divisions are throwing everything they have into the story, and second-screen options are abounding.

From Salon • Nov. 5, 2012

It gives me real pleasure to oblige you, and in such a case as this the best feelings of my heart are abounding for your happiness.

From The History of Margaret Catchpole A Suffolk Girl by Cobbold, Richard

Streams of mercy are abounding, Grace for all is rich and free.

From From Crow-Scaring to Westminster; an Autobiography by George Edwards M.P. O.B.E.

The Catskills are abounding with traditions quite as interesting and extraordinary as the Rip Van Winkle story.

From My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young by Cox, James