How to Use abject in a Sentence

abject

adjective

• She thought he was an abject coward.
• They live in abject misery.
• He offered an abject apology.
• Or live like an abject pauper and park in the driveway.
  — Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 June 2022
• To the virus, to our political system, to the era of abject hate.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2020
• What else is there to say when the team has been an abject disaster over the last decade?
  — Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Aug. 2022
• Both artists were preoccupied with the abject side of the human body — the body as meat.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 31 July 2019
• At this point of the season, that could prove to be an abject disaster.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 28 Jan. 2020
• Either way, the dark side wins and the weakest among us are forced to suffer and die in abject anonymity.
  — Annika Hernroth-Rothstein, National Review, 7 June 2019
• And nobody hires a coach they are not blown away by, even those who turn out to be abject failures.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 June 2022
• The attempt was an abject failure, with the Grizzlies going back to Tyus Jones in that role.
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 8 May 2021
• Of course Caldwell doesn’t want to talk about such abject failure.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 19 Dec. 2017
• All these men are white and their tenure was an abject failure.
  — Greg Moore, azcentral, 3 June 2020
• The Cowboys are 1-3, the defense is abject, the offense turns the ball over way too much and their special teams make more bad plays than good.
  — Dallas News, 5 Oct. 2020
• Of course, this doesn't mean that the abject misery of the people left behind can be forgotten.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 28 Apr. 2020
• The experiment to trust them with keys to the offense looks like an abject failure.
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2022
• But that deal was an abject failure, and all of Sprint's success came crashing down.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 3 Aug. 2020
• Before a hue and cry emanates to play Tua, there (still) needs to be a hue and cry to fix this abject offensive line.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 22 Sep. 2020
• The abject horror of staring down an empty page waiting to be filled.
  — Malina Saval, Variety, 14 Jan. 2022
• For Afghans, the war brought countless fresh graves and frequent doses of abject misery.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2021
• The abject joy at blowing bubbles or shaking bodies to a catchy song.
  — Mitch Albom, Detroit Free Press, 19 Oct. 2021
• The final two minutes of the half were an abject disaster for the Patriots.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Dec. 2022
• But none of us could have prepared for the stress — abject, encompassing — that 2020 would bring.
  — Allure, 18 Nov. 2020
• In the face of abject loss and society-level trauma, how does work bring meaning to our lives?
  — Kathryn Hymes, Wired, 1 Nov. 2021
• These are the faces of utter and abject disappointment.
  — Candace Buckner, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Aug. 2023
• The development has been an abject disaster, to say the least.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2020
• Another part of it is that in the main, the leadership in all too many cases was an abject failure.
  — Washington Post, 9 Mar. 2021
• His confinement is abject, but the source of his pain is deeply relatable: grief.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Dec. 2022
• Xi is also not the first figure to cough without a mask and be greeted by abject horror in Asia at the moment.
  — James Griffiths, CNN, 15 Oct. 2020
• The abject poverty and debt faced by many of India's farmers has forced some to take extreme measures.
  — Esha Mitra and Rhea Mogul Cnn, CNN, 26 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 9 May 2024