How to Use aborted in a Sentence
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The Alaska crew reported the plane's tires blew during the aborted takeoff, according to the FAA.
— Alex Sundby, CBS News, 12 Sep. 2024 -
Moreno also would be smart to address the aborted sale of the team.
— Dylan Hernández, Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023 -
The clogged holes were found after the aborted launch of a GPS satellite on Oct. 2.
— Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Oct. 2020 -
And then the picture of the aborted fetus kind of is the capper detail of the whole thing.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland, 17 Aug. 2022 -
The act says that both parents would need to agree on what to do with the remains of an aborted fetus.
— Megan Friedman, Marie Claire, 11 July 2017 -
In New York City, there were more aborted Black babies than were born last year.
— Fox News Staff, Fox News, 5 July 2022 -
After its aborted takeoff, the plane returned to the gate.
— Alison Sider, WSJ, 15 Jan. 2023 -
The aborted mutiny against Vladimir Putin's regime in Russia could have consequences that span the globe.
— Joel Mathis, The Week, 28 June 2023 -
Boddy had an aborted 2020 spring training and not even a full year this year to do what he was hired to do.
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 Sep. 2021 -
In one case the seal of a doorway failed, forcing an aborted mission.
— Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 2 Oct. 2017 -
The Buccaneers ran seven plays in the red zone, the first being an aborted snap for Brady.
— Brad Biggs, chicagotribune.com, 11 Oct. 2020 -
This is what happened during the company's first, aborted launch to the ISS in 2010.
— Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 28 Sep. 2016 -
The aborted mission comes almost 50 years to the day that Apollo 11 launched its historic feat to put the first human on the moon.
— Helen Regan and Manveena Suri, CNN, 14 July 2019 -
They were told that some of the contestants from the aborted season would not return.
— Steve Helling, PEOPLE.com, 20 June 2017 -
If Breen had seen a gas station the night of his aborted escape, the course of his life might have been different.
— David Hill, Harper’s Magazine , 27 Apr. 2022 -
Rudock bobbled his first hold of the game, an aborted extra-point attempt.
— Dave Birkett, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2017 -
But some of the cell lines used to test vaccines in the lab include cells derived from aborted fetuses.
— Morgan Cook, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2022 -
Played third base and center field for the first time since he was tried there as an aborted experiment in 1981.
— Jr Radcliffe, Journal Sentinel, 18 July 2022 -
In the first quarter, Watt had what looked like a strip-sack negated when it was ruled Huntley had an aborted snap and a fumble.
— Ryan McFadden, baltimoresun.com, 9 Jan. 2022 -
That divide ranges from aborted projects to lethal fires to midair explosions.
— Carie Lemack, Space.com, 31 May 2018 -
Darkseid wasn't in the theatrical cut at all, as he was being set up as the villain for the aborted Justice League 2.
— James Hibberd, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2020 -
The vaccine was developed in the 1960s by using the cells of two aborted fetuses.
— Sarah Ladd, The Courier-Journal, 12 June 2019 -
The second baseman on a Bruins team that finished the aborted season with the nation’s No.
— Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 15 Apr. 2020 -
Tomas scored on a pair of long touchdown catches and picked up a key first down an aborted punt as the host Warriors held off Brother Rice 33-25.
— Steve Millar, Daily Southtown, 2 Sep. 2017 -
Boise State has moved conferences twice in that span, not including the aborted Big East move.
— Dave Southorn, idahostatesman, 14 Mar. 2018 -
That’s where the B-17 crashed and burned Wednesday in an aborted takeoff attempt that led to disaster.
— Jerry Fallstrom, orlandosentinel.com, 2 Oct. 2019 -
The state also said the vaccines don’t contain aborted fetal cells.
— Jess Bravin, WSJ, 14 Dec. 2021 -
In briefs Wednesday, James said that the vaccines do not contain aborted fetal cells.
— Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 10 Nov. 2021 -
In some instances, such as the aborted merger with Fiat Chrysler in 2019, the Nissan link has appeared to be a brake on bold thinking.
— Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 16 May 2022 -
But the company said later the failure was the result of a liquid oxygen propellant leak and that the stage survived the aborted engine firing.
— William Harwood, CBS News, 12 July 2024
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