How to Use abeyance in a Sentence

abeyance

noun

• The merger would have held that in abeyance for three years.
  — Joshua Stewart, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 July 2018
• It will be held in abeyance until the appeal can be heard.
  — Evan Grant, Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2020
• The remaining 40 days will be held in abeyance for five years.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 6 Apr. 2021
• The world hasn’t stopped, but our human social lives are in abeyance.
  — Claire Messud, WSJ, 30 Apr. 2020
• The judge held the case in abeyance until the parties could work out a solution.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
• My whole life—the good, the bad, and the ugly—is being held in abeyance now, while Elton John is singing in Leningrad.
  — Mikhail Iossel, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• It was held in abeyance for nearly five decades until the high court struck down Roe vs. Wade last year.
  — Todd Richmond, ajc, 4 May 2023
• The discipline will be held in abeyance until the process is complete.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2021
• The consensus of analysts is that the crisis may be in abeyance for the moment, but is far from over.
  — Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 2021
• The judges’ comments came as the court voted yesterday to hold the case in abeyance for another 60 days.
  — Niina Heikkinen, Scientific American, 27 June 2018
• Logic and plausibility are held in abeyance to pave the way for the next juicy pop number.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 11 June 2023
• The actors clutched their scripts while members of the hair-and-makeup team attended to them, attempting to keep sweat and grime in abeyance.
  — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 23 Aug. 2021
• His suspension is being held in abeyance until the appeal is heard.
  — Jeff Wallner, Star Tribune, 5 Apr. 2021
• Failing that, a foreclosure case filed by the town — but held in abeyance so a site plan could be developed — will go forward.
  — David Lyons, sun-sentinel.com, 26 June 2019
• And there is the matter of what would become of Earn and Van (and Lottie), a question posed at the very beginning of the series and held in abeyance through much of what followed.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2022
• Bessner agreed to a five-day suspension in the case, though four of those days were held in abeyance, according to State Police records obtained by the Free Press.
  — John Wisely, Detroit Free Press, 7 June 2018
• In effect, all pending cases in various courts have been held in abeyance.
  — Manavi Kapur, Quartz, 10 May 2022
• Kentucky has held her disciplinary case in abeyance pending the resolution of the Ohio case.
  — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati.com, 20 Nov. 2019
• Then the new monarch can decide whether to bestow it on his brother or another member of the family — or hold it in abeyance for a time in the future.
  — Simon Perry, PEOPLE.com, 12 July 2021
• Here’s a look at some of the tougher possible penalties that U.S. leaders are holding in abeyance — while watching for new Russian steps against Ukraine.
  — Ellen Knickmeyer and Fatima Hussein, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Feb. 2022
• The commission held in abeyance the decision as to further adjusting the schedule.
  — Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 17 July 2017
• Since the inauguration, the case has been placed on abeyance at 90-day intervals as Congress and the White House dithered over whether the subsidies should or would be paid.
  — Michael Hiltzik, latimes.com, 13 Oct. 2017
• Having children, all the kind of the daily decisions of life, the future is just held in abeyance, it’s got to be really distressing.
  — Tal Kopan, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2021
• Most of Bourne's 90-day suspension – 75 days – was held in abeyance for one year given that Bourne followed the remedial measures required by the court.
  — Will Langhorne, Arkansas Online, 4 Jan. 2023
• Then Tagovailoa fractured the second metacarpal bone in his left hand during the first offseason practice last month, leaving the team's offense in a state of abeyance.
  — Rainer Sabin, AL.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Some observers say that the Obama-era case could be held in abeyance until a potential new case comes up against the Trump-era regulations, at which time the high court may combine both.
  — John D. McKinnon, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2017
• His characters are people emblematic of our time, when the notions of duty and sacrifice are by and large in abeyance.
  — Katie Kitamura, New York Times, 5 July 2017
• But as the disease moves into abeyance, film productions appear to be resuming.
  — Vivienne Chow, Variety, 8 June 2022
• Plans to build a next-generation frigate at a second yard, which Ingalls had a good chance of winning, now are in abeyance, as are plans to build a next-generation destroyer.
  — Loren Thompson, Forbes, 13 May 2022
• Hope and anticipation have not gone dormant, have not settled in abeyance, just in impatience.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024