How to Use abridge in a Sentence

abridge

verb

• Our freedoms are often abridged in the name of national security.
  — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2024
• Gabriel Gorodetsky’s edition — abridged and unabridged — is a work for the ages.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
• Ghost came out onstage basically a second later, and let the crowd know that the set was going to be abridged.
  — Vulture, 3 Apr. 2023
• Their civil rights are being abridged, but the tensions are so high people aren’t finding a lot of support.
  — Teresa Watanabestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2019
• Granted, his short speech inevitably abridged the long-form document.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
• One way to measure these mores and practices is to count state laws: How many states recognize a putative right and how many try to abridge it?
  — Akhil Reed Amar, WSJ, 13 May 2022
• The First Amendment only protects you from having the government abridge your speech.
  — Karen Huppertz, ajc, 18 Mar. 2016
• For example, the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, and the feds should certainly shoot down any state law that abridges that right.
  — WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
• No prior power can be twisted to abridge or infringe on our Civil Rights.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022
• Simone Biles series, she’s had to abridge her performance style in service to her overall health.
  — Essence, 21 Oct. 2021
• The result was an international hit, which did well even in the United States, where a dubbed and abridged version won an Oscar.
  — Noel Murray, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
• The Ninth Circuit has interpreted the case in a way that would allow states to abridge a business’s right to exclude people from its property.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2021
• And a waiting period of a few days won't abridge anyone's Second Amendment rights, either.
  — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 14 May 2017
• That amendment had a clause that finally said: State laws (in addition to federal laws) can’t abridge the rights of U.S. citizens.
  — Lillian Cunningham, Washington Post, 29 Jan. 2018
• No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
  — Randy Barnett, Washington Post, 4 July 2017
• When bullies try to stop controversial thoughts from being uttered in a public forum to those willing to hear them, both free speech and free thought are abridged.
  — Mercury News Editorial Board, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
• Editor’s note: In certain cases, daters’ answers have been abridged for space and clarity.
  — David Perloff, Pacific San Diego Magazine, 1 Nov. 2017
• There may be cases of juror bias so extreme that, almost by definition, the jury trial right has been abridged.
  — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2016
• But the First Amendment prohibits the government, not private companies, from abridging people's free speech rights.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2020
• What counts as a good reason to abridge a civil right to intimate privacy would be difficult to satisfy.
  — WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
• As others have rehearsed, the First Amendment forbids Congress to make a law that abridges the freedom of speech or of the press, that prohibits the right to assemble or to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
  — Walt Hunter, The Atlantic, 8 May 2017
• To punish the exercise of this right to discuss public affairs or to penalize it through libel judgments is to abridge or shut off discussion of the very kind most needed.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2016
• A few hours later, the trio would depart for the airport to board a Sunday night flight back to Waters’ native Portland, his season abridged by the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
  — Hillel Kuttler, oregonlive, 30 Mar. 2020
• Gun-rights supporters say self-defense is a fundamental right that is improperly abridged by a duty to retreat in the face of danger.
  — Joe Palazzolo, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2016
• The First Amendment promises that the government will not prohibit or abridge the freedom of speech, which includes speech that is considered offensive or hateful.
  — Kiara Alfonseca, ABC News, 15 Dec. 2023
• This conversation has been abridged and edited for clarity.
  — Rose Minutaglio, ELLE, 15 Apr. 2023
• The 14th Amendment also punished states that abridged the right to vote—a state legislature can still take away your right to vote for president, but the state will lose Representatives in Congress, and hence electoral votes.
  — Time, 15 Aug. 2023
• But because the headlines and other text in Cards are abridged to fit the format, the headlines often lack the intricacies of the a complete article (and, in the opinion of some critics, incentivize short, clickbait pitches).
  — Bykylie Robison, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
• To many of Zuckerberg’s critics, however, the First Amendment—which prohibits the government from abridging free speech—has nothing at all to do with a corporation like Facebook.
  — Wired, 7 Nov. 2019
• Because the state did this, Alabama argued, its map couldn’t possibly be abridging Alabamians’ voting rights on account of race.
  — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2023

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024