Example Sentences

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It requires those submitting trophy kills to sign an affidavit swearing they have abided by club technology and other restrictions.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 5, 2026

An overwhelming majority of the municipal government’s more than 330,000 workers have abided by the mandate and gotten their COVID-19 shots.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 21, 2022

For 50 years now, American presidents have abided by the bargain.

From New York Times • Aug. 11, 2021

“FINA has already made it clear, I have no violation. I have abided by the relevant rules. I think what I did is in the interests of all athletes,” Sun told Chinese reporters in Gwangju.

From Reuters • Jul. 27, 2019

A half-hour's march brought us to the locality, and a most delightful one it was,—so hospitable and inviting that all the kindly and beneficent influences of the woods must have abided there.

From Wake-Robin by Burroughs, John