How to Use abstraction in a Sentence

abstraction

noun

• She gazed out the window in abstraction.
• 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, 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• While a maestro of abstraction, Shannon was also a keen builder.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Apr. 2023
• For people who are middle class or affluent, the day-to-day lives of people who are poor is an abstraction.
  — jsonline.com, 6 Oct. 2022
• Yet, strangely, that very sense of abstraction, far from crystallizing over time in the course of the action, only works to hollow the movie out.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2023
• Last month, an exhibition on abstraction came down, and works by artists like Roman, Ilya and Taras went up.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2023
• But the courthouse faces the Capitol building; rebellion is not an abstraction for the Justices.
  — E. Tammy Kim, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2024
• As the stunning Murina opens, a blue expanse of water fills the frame like a painterly abstraction.
  — Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 July 2022
• When the Russian state sinks its teeth into you, justice becomes a mere abstraction.
  — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2023
• Modern art’s drive toward abstraction has always been described in terms of music, and that’s of course right.
  — Washington Post, 17 May 2023
• Paintings that boil down human experience to a stew of signs and symbols, and set the 20th century on the path to abstraction.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 11 Nov. 2022
• Patricelli, who was never a climate-change doubter, said the disappearance of his house brought the issue out of the realm of abstraction.
  — Richard Fausset, BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2022
• Or of all the autistics who are poets and painters, for surely art involves a lot of imagination and abstraction.
  — Time, 31 July 2023
• Not all learners are able to engage in detailed abstraction.
  — Michael Jensen, Forbes, 18 Apr. 2022
• Even those who feel at home with equations and abstraction can benefit from narrowing the gap between the arts and sciences.
  — Audrey G. Bennett, The Conversation, 10 Aug. 2023
• Malevich theorized an idealized, pure abstraction — a field of the mind — which gave his works the cast of religious icons.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Aug. 2023
• This might have seemed like a fanciful abstraction, even paranoid, to an outsider.
  — Scott Johnson, Rolling Stone, 19 June 2023
• Viewers begin to see Jean Jacket as more than an abstraction, and are rewarded with glimpses of the alien’s anatomy and psyche.
  — Nylah Burton, Outside Online, 9 Aug. 2022
• The contemporary sections take place in an abstraction of a bamboo forest made of more white poles.
  — Brian Seibert, New York Times, 12 July 2023
• Many of the pictures have a heightened contrast that emphasizes their abstraction.
  — William Meyers, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022
• To restrain our interpretation of the Constitution to the minds of dead white men fails to honor the breadth and abstraction of their commands and will make all of us less free.
  — Liza Batkin, The New Yorker, 12 Nov. 2022
• Her work, a blend of imagery and abstraction, has stemmed from her eye condition strabismus.
  — Sofia Krusmark, The Arizona Republic, 17 June 2022

Last Updated: 3 May 2024