How to Use abet in a Sentence

abet

verb

• Did he abet the commission of a crime?
• She abetted the thief in his getaway.
• Their actions were shown to abet terrorism.
• But it has been abetted, in the past few years, by a few factors.
  — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• Whisky abets the smokiness in the slightly sweet sesame sauce.
  — Naomi Kooker, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• It’s aided and abetted by the drafting of guys like Joe Mixon.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• The gods, of course, are abetting the worst impulses of these mortals.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
• If the car is registered to you, you can be charged with aiding and abetting.
  — Kathleen Purvis and Myah Ward, charlotteobserver, 29 June 2018
• Too often, Assange acts as if there are no such tensions, and Poitras abets him in this.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 3 May 2017
• Numerous studies have detailed the ways in which climate change may aid and abet the spread of these pathogens as the world warms.
  — Henry Skinner, STAT, 9 Feb. 2023
• The tenants are also suing the city of Chicago for abetting this process.
  — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 21 Feb. 2018
• Things went a long way on campus, abetted by this movement.
  — Vanessa Grigoriadis, The Hive, 6 Sep. 2017
• The film has a jaunty tone of deadpan glee, abetted by its soundtrack of ’60s and ’70s jazz standards.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 4 Sep. 2023
• Lenders are wary both of credit risk and of abetting crime if exchanges don’t police users.
  — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
• Some women paid a high price, landing in prison for abetting his life as a fugitive.
  — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• Facebook was in the midst of a crackdown on false or misleading material that could abet the spread of the virus.
  — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
• But then, the GOP has always known that the birther-king fits said description — and abetted the mogul’s rise to power, anyway.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 22 June 2017
• This is intended to give the impression, abetted by a press corps that was...
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 3 Apr. 2019
• Yet there’s little sense of risk with her, and when there was, Mr. Welser-Möst certainly wasn’t abetting it.
  — Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2018
• Salman, the wife of Pulse nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, is charged with aiding and abetting in the attack.
  — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Mar. 2018
• Results like these, and the reforms that abetted them, are welcome and overdue.
  — Dana Stevens, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2023
• The jury convicted Tapp of aiding and abetting the rape and murder.
  — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 29 Apr. 2017
• The jury has asked the judge to explain the aiding and abetting law a few times and asked to see a video of a co-defendant's statement to police.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw | [e-mail], AL.com, 18 May 2017
• The men pleaded guilty in May 2017 to felony-level aiding and abetting in the sale of untaxed tobacco.
  — Mary Divine, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2019
• The scale of the effort then abets itself, setting up a destructive feedback loop.
  — Wade Graham, Smithsonian, 31 Aug. 2019
• While pretending to abet the hearings, Daugherty fought them tooth and nail.
  — Kevin Baker, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
• Salman, 31, faces a trial in March on charges of aiding and abetting and obstruction of justice.
  — Erik Ortiz, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2018
• In the background remains a lot of criticism about aiding and abetting fake news.
  — The Hive, 17 Feb. 2017
• Malling’s ability to find a middle way in fashion is actually abetted by digital media.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 5 Aug. 2024
• Ultimately, the pair’s sensual love story is tested by revelations that force Isabel to reckon with the Netherlands’ role in abetting the Holocaust, and her family’s in silencing its survivors.
  — The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024