Example Sentences

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It really matters whether we as a public will abhor and condemn political violence when we see it as opposed to just be silent.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2023

"When this report is declassified, people will abhor what they read," Mr Udall told Esquire magazine.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2014

If Massachusetts abhors slavery, how long will it be before she will abhor slaveholders?

From A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention For Proposing Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, Held at Washington, D.C., in February, A.D. 1861 by Chittenden, L. E. (Lucius Eugene)

To blame?—All the world will abhor and curse you.

From Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are by Godwin, William

Here I must deny myself, and my will, and give place unto his will; abhor and hate my own will. 

From Sermons on the Card by Morley, Henry