Example Sentences

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After abstracting once, a man will abstract again to make a verbal statement about the fact.

From Time Magazine Archive

I will abstract, in rapid resume, The leading points.

From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

The question is whether he will allow them free course, or whether he will abstract himself from them.

From Recollections of My Youth by Renan, Ernest