How to Use aberration in a Sentence

aberration

noun

• For her, such a low grade on an exam was an aberration.
• Much of the world hopes 2020 was an aberration, not a trend.
  — Staff Report, NOLA.com, 23 Nov. 2020
• If the dogs’ paws have any aberrations or cuts, the salts will burn.
  — John Surico, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
• And all of these things are a trend, not a one-game aberration.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Oct. 2017
• Was that last Hawkeyes win an aberration from the three-point line?
  — Marcus Fuller, Star Tribune, 10 Jan. 2021
• The data over the past month shows that’s not an aberration.
  — Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Apr. 2020
• The Bears have to hope that was more of an aberration than anything else.
  — Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 30 Sep. 2020
• To be a two-time All-Star says last year wasn't an aberration.
  — Jeff Sanders, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
• This is their chance to prove that game wasn’t an aberration.
  — Ryan Connors, ajc, 8 Sep. 2017
• Whether this was an aberration or the norm remains to be seen.
  — Rob Reischel, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2021
• Is this an aberration or the start of an alarming trend?
  — John Talty | [e-mail], al, 11 Nov. 2020
• Was this bigger role a one-game aberration or a sign of things to come?
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 11 Nov. 2021
• Aside from the aberration that was the 70s, it's been that way forever.
  — Shawn Windsor, Detroit Free Press, 5 July 2018
• The tracking of the Wildfire charges were not an aberration.
  — Alexandra Kukulka, chicagotribune.com, 25 June 2018
• The Dodgers had reason to hope Bellinger’s 2021 was an aberration.
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2022
• Is this a late-life aberration, or can the tropism be traced to a deeper angst that was missed in its time?
  — The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
• The hope is that Sunday’s success was a sign of things to come, and not just an aberration.
  — Omar Kelly, sun-sentinel.com, 21 Dec. 2020
• Whether that was an aberration or the sign of things to come in his early 30s remains to be seen.
  — Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2021
• When Spiked Seltzer, the first one in the US, debuted in 2013, it was viewed as an aberration.
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 8 Nov. 2021
• In 2000 Columbine could still be viewed as an aberration.
  — Rick Hampson, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
• The election of Moore was not an aberration but part of a long-running trend.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 30 Sep. 2017
• Graves called the high volume of turnovers an aberration.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2021
• The sequence at the Florence airport was filmed late in the shoot—an aberration.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• By themselves, the home runs could be viewed as an aberration.
  — Times Staff Reports, latimes.com, 24 Oct. 2017
• For me, this season is an aberration of some of the past seasons.
  — Jordan Taliha McDonald, Vulture, 7 Apr. 2022
• Maybe this is an aberration and maybe next week at home Aaron Rodgers will be great.
  — Mike Hart, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Sep. 2021
• And that year wasn't an aberration, but rather the start of a long dry spell for country/pop crossover.
  — Paul Grein, Billboard, 10 Sep. 2019
• Will 2020 turn out to be an aberration or a turning point?
  — Susan Page, USA Today, 28 Dec. 2020
• But this was likely a one-year aberration to get the books in order.
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• A month ago, April’s 278K was widely thought to be an aberration (not by us!).
  — Robert Barone, Forbes, 6 June 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024