How to Use aberration in a Sentence

aberration

noun

• For her, such a low grade on an exam was an aberration.
• The Mets have spent six weeks averaging six runs per game, which is trending away from aberration.
  — Tim Britton, The Athletic, 11 July 2024
• Kennedy battled to make his previous outing an aberration.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity.com, 26 May 2017
• An aberration on the verdict slip, however, has raised new questions about the trial outcome.
  — Jess Bidgood, New York Times, 26 June 2017
• The Colts can rest easy knowing that for their sure-handed tight end, Sunday’s game was likely an aberration.
  — Stephen Holder, Indianapolis Star, 25 Sep. 2017
• One thing that makes baseball so wonderfully unpredictable is the happy aberration of a career year out of nowhere.
  — Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 13 June 2017
• Bandai Namco did not respond to questions about the game's chromatic aberration issues in time for this review.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 3 June 2017
• Some pundits imagine car parks of the future bristling with charging-points as plugging in becomes normal and filling with liquid fuel is regarded as an aberration.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• His defense rated oddly poorly last season (-16 defensive runs saved, zero outs above average), but year-to-year aberrations are not uncommon.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
• Volahn rarely tour, making this midwestern appearance an exciting aberration—and with any luck an indication of future activity.
  — Ed Blair, Chicago Reader, 31 Aug. 2017
• 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
• The omens are good, and Democrats have reason to hope that 2016 was just an aberration.
  — Dylan Scott, Vox, 25 Oct. 2018
• 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
• The other side of the argument is that the run to the Cup Final is a one-year aberration.
  — Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 1 Jan. 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

Last Updated: 16 Jan 2025