How to Use abstraction in a Sentence

abstraction

noun

• She gazed out the window in abstraction.
• And they were made in the 1960s, a time when abstraction reigned.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 May 2021
• The idea of colds as a little trial for the soul is an abstraction.
  — Addison Del Mastro, The Week, 16 Feb. 2022
• These make sense in the world they're set in, with little abstraction.
  — Chuong Nguyen and Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 24 Mar. 2023
• For most of us, the intense drought that is gripping most of the state is an abstraction.
  — Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 May 2021
• Our neighbors — and the rest of the world — become abstractions.
  — Jim Beckerman, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2019
• For most of us, this was how the crisis was viewed - from the abstraction of space, a mutation of the map.
  — Henry Wismayer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2022
• For most of us, this was how the crisis was viewed — from the abstraction of space, a mutation of the map.
  — Henry Wismayer, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2022
• As a measure of time, a year can seem like an abstraction.
  — Time, 23 Dec. 2020
• American art was swept up in the post-war rage for abstraction.
  — Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2022
• The effects of climate change are no longer an abstraction.
  — Washington Post, 26 Oct. 2021
• The Maryland native varies the view with close-ups of water and plants, some of which approach abstraction.
  — Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2021
• The abstraction of genre is stripped away to favor the fight-or-flight behavior that slasher movies try to capture in the first place.
  — Wired, 10 July 2022
• In those moments, his words seemed like an abstraction.
  — Chris Megerian, Vanessa Gera and Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Mar. 2022
• The experts are too deep in the weeds, while policy makers seem lost in abstractions.
  — Yuval Levin, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2023
• The paintings run the gamut of abstraction, from moody to exuberant.
  — Kriston Capps, Washington Post, 30 Aug. 2023
• Here all are painted an unlikely shade of soft green, which, with the bracing blue sky, gives the setting the force of abstraction.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2019
• Af Klint, for those keeping score, seems to have beaten Kandinsky to the punch of modern abstraction by five years.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2021
• Some researchers see a trend toward greater abstraction in the field in the design of new network metrics.
  — Grace Huckins, Wired, 17 Aug. 2020
• The first of which involved not falling too far into abstraction based on the fact the cast includes more than 100 actors.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 22 Oct. 2020
• But Lawrence yields only so much to the prevailing taste for abstraction.
  — Washington Post, 18 Nov. 2020
• The two may seem like opposites — 1920s Spanish baroque and punchy Day-Glo abstraction — but each is happy to put on a show.
  — John King, SFChronicle.com, 6 Jan. 2020
• Drawn to abstraction, Villa had a fair amount of success early on.
  — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2022
• The move over the previous decade from abstraction to figuration among the avant-garde.
  — Eric Gibson, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2023
• The installation’s skein of lines might thus be read as mere abstraction, like a Jackson Pollock on the grass.
  — Blake Gopnik, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• But the broken freezer on top of the world has remained an abstraction for most of the planet’s 7.7 billion people.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 14 Dec. 2019
• Graduation is fresh in their minds; debt is just an abstraction, and the future can still feel open.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2019
• Zero’s latest surprise may be in just how well the brain learns to handle that abstraction.
  — Michaela Maya-Mrschtik, Scientific American, 21 Oct. 2024
• Barak brings the abstractions of carbon footprints and greenhouse gas emissions to vivid, tangible life.
  — Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
• The idea that two billionaires should be able to determine on their own the value of a person’s job and then proceed to fire that person in order to reduce the size of that abstraction called the bureaucracy is unnerving.
  — Jeffery Vacante, Hartford Courant, 19 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 20 Feb 2025