How to Use abhorrence in a Sentence

abhorrence

noun

• But abhorrence of the fence is a rare issue on which the two parties can agree.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2021
• In real life, of course, there are no fairies, and Bianco had a lifelong abhorrence of the coddling of children.
  — Vulture, 8 Nov. 2022
• The opposition to Trump is rooted in the law, and it is rooted in abhorrence of his politics.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2017
• The non-Western response to the West’s newfound abhorrence of slavery was not a welcoming one.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
• Even so, Facebook seems to have crossed the line of tolerable abhorrence for some tech workers.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 June 2020
• The two sisters came to share an abhorrence of the slave system on which their family’s wealth and position depended.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
• What is Beaux-Arts but the abhorrence of undecorated surfaces, right?
  — Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 1 Apr. 2012
• So Sargent was willing to suspend his abhorrence and make an exception.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
• But what is distinct is the way this push toward new technologies is matched with an abhorrence for the human body’s sheer squishy vulnerability in the face of steel and circuit.
  — Jake Muncy, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2015
• Morell was a career CIA officer, imbued with the agency’s trademark abhorrence of anyone who leaks secrets.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 15 Sep. 2017
• The newspapers have issued special editions with black borders, expressing abhorrence of the crime.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 June 2018
• Like the tea parties, it was rooted in an abhorrence of taxation (with or without representation).
  — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2016
• At the most meaningful level of identity, this tradition joins Ukrainians and Russians, as well as millions of others throughout the world, who watch with abhorrence the scandal of this invasion.
  — Tim Kelleher, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Despite the president’s purported abhorrence for those within the government who leak news about the White House government to the press, nearly every story about the White House involves anonymous statements.
  — Maya Kosoff, The Hive, 16 June 2017
• The problem for me is that climate change is not present the way slavery was and there are no heinous images of its existence that future generations will regard with the same abhorrence that is elicited today by visual reminders of slavery's past.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2010
• The gamble is that abhorrence of Trump is sufficiently strong to motivate voters and that Biden and Harris, rather than tapping into their wrath and dread, can therefore offer them comfort and empathy instead.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2020
• The resolution to suspend Russia needed a two-thirds majority of votes cast, with abstentions not counting as votes, and is seen as a barometer of the world’s abhorrence over the apparent atrocities in Ukraine.
  — New York Times, 7 Apr. 2022
• Honda has made controlling volume simple with a dial on the center stack and an improved steering-wheel control, but the automaker’s abhorrence of buttons for tuning remains a mystery and a source of annoyance.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2017
• Like a fair number of Trumpists, Bauerlein holds some beliefs that might have been expected to incline him toward #NeverTrump-ism, including an abhorrence of vulgarity.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• These bills are engineered to incite extreme emotion—sympathy for an embryo and abhorrence for people seeking abortions.
  — Marie Solis, The New Republic, 26 May 2021
• Bennett suggests threatening to fly reconnaissance aircraft along the country's coast, playing off Kim's abhorrence for spying.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 10 June 2022
• For instance, the Satanists' focus on fairness and social justice and their abhorrence to religious hypocrisy has resulted in them taking up several First Amendment cases—and sometimes winning.
  — Cady Drell, Marie Claire, 20 Mar. 2019
• Because of their disorder, the subjects seem paralyzed by a fascination with and abhorrence of their sheer physicality.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
• The reality is that few members of Congress will align themselves with a statement bereft of asserting America’s abhorrence for the murder of political opponents.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
• Living and learning in Germany, however, produced in her an abhorrence of German culture, with its pervasive ethic of Pflicht—duty or high seriousness.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
• Fellow Black television sitcom actress Janet Hubert also tweeted out her abhorrence for Rashad's support, directly calling her out.
  — Shelby Stewart, Chron, 1 July 2021
• Scrolling through phones while dining, in meetings, and even while actively speaking to other people, is so commonplace that at this point there is little cultural abhorrence surrounding their use in almost any daily activity.
  — J.q. Louise, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2019
• This position is airily remote from the affective texture of moral life, from the motivating complex of sentiments — whether admiration or abhorrence — that certain actions can produce.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2022
• But that has collided with the politics of Germany, Europe’s largest and most influential economy, where a profound cultural abhorrence of debt has prompted the government to enforce budget austerity across the continent.
  — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Edelstein’s contrary nature, his resistance to political interference in pastoral life, his abhorrence of silence, continues to this day.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 4 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 11 Sep 2024