Example Sentences

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But that doesn’t mean that the hazards of tire pollution will have abated.

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2023

In a short time your youthful zeal for reform will have abated, and we can then slip back unto the old comfortable groove.

From A Knight on Wheels by Hay, Ian

"All his faculties will be clear and active, and the great bodily pain which he is now suffering will have abated."

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

By the time the tales have gone round, the heat of the sun will have abated, and we can then divert ourselves as best we like.

From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 01 — Fiction by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir