How to Use abolition in a Sentence

abolition

noun

• Even last year, death penalty abolition bills in the General Assembly went nowhere.
  — Denise Lavoie and Sarah Rankin, CBS News, 22 Feb. 2021
• Last year, death penalty abolition bills in the General Assembly went nowhere.
  — Sarah Rankin, Star Tribune, 5 Feb. 2021
• Martha Wright organized conventions for women’s rights and for abolition, braving hecklers and mobs.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
• For the first time in its history, America has a president who is on record favoring complete abolition of the death penalty.
  — Star Tribune, 15 Feb. 2021
• But also news that people had to adjust to that were unpopular, about the 14th Amendment and the abolition of slavery.
  — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 3 Feb. 2021
• Only a full century after the abolition of slavery did the civil rights movement begin yielding high-impact laws such as the Voting Rights Act.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2024
• The second must-do is the abolition of the debt ceiling.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
• After the Civil War, the abolition of slavery caused those in the U.S. to take a fresh look at workers’ rights.
  — Russ Bynum, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
• This process continued until the abolition of slave trade in the 1900s.
  — Nnamdi Madichie, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2021
• To be clear, the death of police officers is not what abolition is.
  — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2022
• Some favor not only the abolition of bail, but of prisons and the police.
  — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
• In fact, there were more slaves than colonists at the Cape during the century preceding the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
  — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
• But there’s a long tradition at TNR of urging the abolition of the monarchy—and even advising Charles to be the one to do the deed.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• To say that the abolition of the Affordable Care Act somehow equals the end of democracy is the wrong way of framing things.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2021
• Now, Democrats have made the abolition of the filibuster a litmus test for their party.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
• As long as there’s a royal family, there will be pomp and pageantry and polls about abolition.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2023
• The amendment was the official abolition of slavery in the United States.
  — Steve Lord, chicagotribune.com, 2 Feb. 2022
• The abolition of the 45pc rate had become a distraction from our mission to get Britain moving.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 3 Oct. 2022
• Become a wealthy slave owner or achieve the abolition of slavery.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 24 May 2023
• Justice is a living George & the abolition of a system intent on harm.
  — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 20 Apr. 2021
• So that area has always been a part of the complicated legacy of the abolition movement.
  — Kaitlyn Greenidge, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 July 2023
• Belle used her status and influence to free slaves and get involved in the abolition movement.
  — Paulina Jayne Isaac, SELF, 8 Feb. 2022
• The book hones in on ideas like prison abolition and racial disparities in healthcare.
  — Anne Nickoloff, cleveland, 2 Apr. 2021
• What if safety is achieved not by violent organs of the state but through their abolition?
  — WIRED, 9 Aug. 2023
• At Cornell, students push for pass/fail courses only and the abolition of all grades.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 26 Dec. 2022
• Calls have been made across the country for police reform and even outright abolition of the force in wake of fatal shootings at the hands of police.
  — Miriam Marini, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2021
• It’s about the abolition of hanging, but also about men of that era, and justice, and miscarriages of justice.
  — Liz Appel, Vogue, 20 Apr. 2022
• Lincoln, in the new Republican party, ran on a platform of abolition, which made the South believe there was no longer a place for them in the Union.
  — Caitlin McLean, USA TODAY, 13 Sep. 2022
• The king expressed remorse during a speech marking the 160th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the Netherlands.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 2 July 2023
• Long before the radical abolition movement of the 1830s, enslaved people had little choice but to place their trust in this more halting, conservative movement.
  — Carolyn Eastman, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024