How to Use abhor in a Sentence

abhor

verb

• Abhors the way people leave their trash at the picnic sites in the park.
• The man abhors them the same way the Longhorns despise the Sooners.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 11 Apr. 2020
• Some even used the words the union abhors more than any other: salary cap.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 10 July 2019
• It’s the use of a legislative tool to block bills you abhor.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2021
• The Ravens abhor cutting draft picks in their first year, so Scott, a fourth-rounder, and Lasley, a fifth-rounder, will have to play their way off the team.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2018
• Isn’t this the sort of private gain at public expense that people on the left claim to abhor?
  — Michael Solon, WSJ, 26 June 2019
• Sadly the thing is this: Institutions of all sorts abhor risk and work.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• The president also cited his father as the one who taught him to abhor the abuse of power.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• The one caveat is that these are not dishwasher safe, so might not be great for people who abhor hand-washing.
  — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2017
• We are trained now to abhor the nuisance in everything, while missing the wonder.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• For someone who made his monster on the parts plucked from the back of LPs, Becker sure abhorred obvious credits.
  — Kelly Dwyer, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2017
• Nature abhors a vacuum, and China will be quick to fill it.
  — WSJ, 13 June 2023
• But the West once abhorred the vacuum; only the East truly understood it.
  — Phil Patton, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• Gophers players and coach P.J. Fleck abhorred what happened to Clifford this week.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 21 Nov. 2019
• For one thing, the First Amendment—not 230—protects much of what people abhor online, including hate speech and fake news.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2019
• Most of us who supported Trump in 2020 abhorred what happened after the election.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 1 Jan. 2024
• The July 4 week was a quiet one in Washington, but the news business abhors a vacuum.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 13 July 2017
• Investors abhor uncertainty and tend to sell stocks in the months leading up to an election when the outcome is unknown.
  — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• There are many things to abhor about Mark Zuckerberg and his works, but the fundamental mediocrity of it all is what feels both most egregious and most of this moment.
  — David Roth, The New Republic, 22 Dec. 2021
• Meanwhile, their mother abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want to take on the work of raising a family.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• Why, these extremists abhor the very idea that Hutchinson would want to protect sinful perverts with a hate-crime law.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2021
• Big-time scammers abhor blowing even cheap foreign labor on calls that victims hang up on.
  — Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
• Scientists as a rule tend to abhor misleading people or out-and-out lying.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2012
• Solar panels, which abhor the shade of not only trees but also tall buildings.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 3 May 2021
• Shooting the skateparks from a single angle would have required a wide-angle fisheye lens, which Zaki abhors.
  — Michael Hardy, WIRED, 1 July 2019
• Because of the enhancer, a young man was quickly tainted by an allegation we all abhor.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 13 May 2022
• But Madame Bernard, known as Fanny, abhorred the work that her father’s money made possible.
  — Emily Anthes, Slate Magazine, 18 Jan. 2017
• The markets are said to abhor uncertainty, while Mr. Trump all but guarantees it.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• This kind of scrutiny, long abhorred by the tech industry, should now be welcomed by our society.
  — Hemant Taneja, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2018
• These aren’t bad things, but every year there is a bit more, and collectors who abhor ones and zeros are also increasingly swarming to analog sports cars and supercars.
  — Christian Gilbertsen, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024