How to Use abortive in a Sentence

abortive

adjective

• Yet the two abortive share sales have a core attribute in common.
  — David Fickling | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2019
• Texas had to wade through the abortive Steve Patterson era.
  — Tim Griffin, ajc, 27 Sep. 2017
• After the excitement of a near-shipwreck, the trip proves abortive.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• Which is where that abortive Mets spring training visit comes in.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• The highest bid in that abortive auction was $61 million.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2017
• France introduced its own version of the EU’s abortive levy.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2019
• The abortive tie-up inspires thoughts of future matches.
  — The Economist, 10 Oct. 2019
• In August 1991, hard-liners in the government launched an abortive coup d'etat.
  — William Welch and Jorge Ortiz, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2022
• An abortive knife cut on the back of Ringo's head only indicates that someone had a notion to scalp the corpse (and thought better of it).
  — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 13 June 2021
• Half-hearted stints, in the next few years, as a legal apprentice and an army ensign proved just as abortive.
  — Clare Bucknell, Harper’s Magazine , 26 Oct. 2022
• Salcedo's partner in the abortive caper, 22-year-old Adam Botbyl, has less than two months left on a sentence of 26 months for his role in the plot.
  — Kevin Poulsen, WIRED, 11 July 2006
• Also in jail is Hisham Geneina, a former state auditor who joined one of the abortive campaigns to challenge Mr Sisi.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• Supporters of the abortive rally would get spotted and a crowd would gather, chanting at them.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 21 Aug. 2017
• This idea of vaunted and maybe abortive idealistic attempts to change things.
  — Isaac Chotiner, Slate Magazine, 16 Oct. 2017
• In that case, the Niger crisis might bear some passing resemblance to Prigozhin’s own abortive uprising last month.
  — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 2 Aug. 2023
• The ads were signed by none other than Donald Trump as part of his abortive presidential campaign.
  — Craig Unger, The New Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
• Nothing has damaged the chances of meaningful change more than their abortive attempt to corral as much of the game’s wealth as possible to their own ends.
  — New York Times, 10 Aug. 2021
• In that work, students erect barricades in the streets of Paris, an abortive attempt at revolution.
  — Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 15 Jan. 2020
• The film’s most telling scene is one of the abortive dates Menashe goes on with a woman in a similar situation to him—widowed, with children, looking to make a new home.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2017
• The central bank and state banks wasted at least $100bn in precious foreign reserves in an abortive attempt to salvage the currency.
  — The Economist, 21 Nov. 2020
• The media have whipped themselves into a nationalist frenzy almost as big as the one that followed an abortive coup in 2016.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• An onslaught of clumsy and abortive strikes against the science establishment might serve as cover for more careful and strategic moves against the status quo.
  — Daniel Engber, Slate Magazine, 8 Feb. 2017
• Cyprus has been divided since a Turkish invasion in 1974, which followed an abortive coup by supporters of union with Greece.
  — Washington Post, 11 Oct. 2019
• Maezawa cast the trip as an art project before an abortive attempt to make a dating reality show out of the experience.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2020
• An abortive one-night stand blossoms into an unlikely best-friendship.
  — TIME, 6 Feb. 2024
• That last number counted as a deep track, previously unplayed publicly by any of the members apart from a handful of dates on the brief and abortive Springfield reunion tour of 2011.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 23 Apr. 2023
• Below is a breakdown of the most common abortive and preventative treatment options.
  — Abigail Libers, SELF, 9 Mar. 2022
• Still, the abortive nomination even cost Dourson and his wife Martha personally.
  — James Pilcher, Cincinnati.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• Even Ester’s vegetarianism crumbles in the course of their abortive courtship.
  — The New Yorker, 4 July 2022
• In what appears to be a dream, a creepy-crawly form is seen moving under the skin of Jakub’s face, its pedipalps first making an abortive attempt to exit via his nostrils before a sizeable spider emerges from his mouth.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024