Example Sentences

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He has abhorred controls ever since he had a minor role in administering them as a lawyer for the Office of Price Administration during World War II.

From Time Magazine Archive

She has not begun to think of the child yet—and she has abhorred me all her life.

From Robin by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Every truly great fighter has abhorred war, else he were not truly great.

From Greenwich Village by Cram, Allan G. (Allan Gilbert)