How to Use abate in a Sentence

abate

verb

• We waited for the wind to abate.
• But the pandemic didn’t abate quickly enough to allow that to happen.
  — Hugo Martín, Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• But while trade tensions are likely to abate, an end to the skirmishes over tech and tax that marked the Trump era is too much to hope for.
  — Rochelle Toplensky, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2020
• Stocks of companies that need the virus to abate and the economy to return to normal had some of the biggest losses.
  — Author: Stan Choe, Damian J. Troise, Alex Veiga, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Oct. 2020
• If case numbers do not abate, hospitals could be full in a few weeks and the death count could number in the thousands, officials say.
  — Soumya Karlamangla Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2020
• Stocks of companies that most need the virus to abate for their businesses to get back to normal were slumping to some of the sharpest losses.
  — Arkansas Online, 28 Oct. 2020
• Stocks of companies that need the virus to abate and the economy to return to normal were logging some of the sharpest losses in early trading.
  — Stan Choe, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2020
• Stocks of companies that need the virus to abate and the economy to return to normal were logging some of the sharpest losses in morning trading.
  — CBS News, 26 Oct. 2020
• The economy is expected to contract almost 10% this year and criminal violence has yet to abate.
  — Juan Montes, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• While Zandra can’t be here, Torri is hopeful that the novel coronavirus will abate by spring, and the designer will be able to return.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2020
• As restrictions ease, people have started venturing out again to meet up with friends, go on vacations and flock back to businesses, causing the virus to surge and abate over and over.
  — Aidin Vaziri, SFChronicle.com, 8 Oct. 2020
• Greece, where the Noor One remained docked all this time, was to be the most consequential source of conflict over the deal once the bloodletting started to abate.
  — Alexander Clapp, The New Republic, 28 Sep. 2020
• Even if credit concerns abate there are long-term profitability pressures, notably low interest rates, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.
  — Telis Demos, WSJ, 2 Oct. 2020
• There are some signs that the chip shortage will abate by the end of the summer.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 4 June 2021
• As night fell, the crowd’s anger showed no signs of abating.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 1 Jan. 2020
• The protests and anger across France seem unlikely to abate in the weeks ahead.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• There are no signs that trend will abate any time soon.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
• Tonight: Mainly clear skies and calm winds allow the heat to abate.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
• The good news, experts say, is that the chip shortage should abate sometime in the next six to 18 months.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
• Plague would spread, then abate, only to flare up again.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• In wealthy Europe, though, the church’s woes show few signs of abating.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 27 May 2018
• But the primary war with the Houthis shows no signs of abating.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• And this means the war in Afghanistan is unlikely to abate anytime soon.
  — Asfandyar Mir, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• Shouldn’t be as ugly as some, but the pain won’t abate anytime soon.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
• With the matcha movement showing no signs of abating, here are five of the best brands to try.
  — Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk, theweek, 5 Aug. 2024
• Meanwhile the pace and pressure of my life showed no signs of abating.
  — Adriana Velez, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2018
• And those forces, in turn, help to drive or abate global warming.
  — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 29 Mar. 2017
• Two years on and the conflict in Yemen shows little signs of abating.
  — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 31 May 2017
• This suggests that beer drinkers’ thirst for dark beer has not entirely abated and may soon start increasing.
  — Erik Ofgang, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
• Israel’s war on both fronts has shown no signs of abating despite the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar on Thursday after a year-long pursuit.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024