How to Use abate in a Sentence

abate

verb

• We waited for the wind to abate.
• There are some signs that the chip shortage will abate by the end of the summer.
  — Annie White, Car and Driver, 4 June 2021
• Back in Kolkata, the noise has started to abate on the Maidan.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
• As night fell, the crowd’s anger showed no signs of abating.
  — Justin Rohrlich, Quartz, 1 Jan. 2020
• The protests and anger across France seem unlikely to abate in the weeks ahead.
  — Roger Cohen, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• There are no signs that trend will abate any time soon.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2022
• Tonight: Mainly clear skies and calm winds allow the heat to abate.
  — David Streit, Washington Post, 19 May 2022
• The good news, experts say, is that the chip shortage should abate sometime in the next six to 18 months.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 17 July 2022
• Plague would spread, then abate, only to flare up again.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Well, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• In wealthy Europe, though, the church’s woes show few signs of abating.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 27 May 2018
• But the primary war with the Houthis shows no signs of abating.
  — Leo Sands, Washington Post, 12 Dec. 2023
• And this means the war in Afghanistan is unlikely to abate anytime soon.
  — Asfandyar Mir, Washington Post, 30 Mar. 2018
• For some, the Park’s branches are arms stretched up and out, abating hate.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 4 Feb. 2025
• Shouldn’t be as ugly as some, but the pain won’t abate anytime soon.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2021
• With the matcha movement showing no signs of abating, here are five of the best brands to try.
  — Irenie Forshaw, The Week Uk, theweek, 5 Aug. 2024
• Meanwhile the pace and pressure of my life showed no signs of abating.
  — Adriana Velez, Bon Appetit, 27 Mar. 2018
• And those forces, in turn, help to drive or abate global warming.
  — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 29 Mar. 2017
• Two years on and the conflict in Yemen shows little signs of abating.
  — Euan McKirdy, CNN, 31 May 2017
• After the smoke abated, the TV footage showed a large hole left behind.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2024
• The surge has been expensive, and shows no signs of abating.
  — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2023
• There’s a joy that comes with seeing that stuff that hasn’t abated at all.
  — Daniel D’addario, Time, 11 July 2017
• And the risk of spreading the virus days after symptoms have abated is low.
  — Ashish K. Jha, STAT, 6 Mar. 2024
• Yet the war that has blocked those grain shipments for almost five months did not abate.
  — Susie Blann, ajc, 22 July 2022
• Trends that, as of right now, have abated and even reversed.
  — Galen Druke, ABC News, 1 Feb. 2024
• Boarded up in a safe room, my freeze response didn’t abate.
  — Kyle Casey Chu, Vogue, 1 July 2022
• As the backlog of permits is worked through, these challenges should abate.
  — David Trainer, Forbes, 1 Sep. 2021
• Six years have passed, but the pain has not abated, the anger has not softened and the outrage is still real.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 22 June 2023
• Police post that the zone will be abated, and then clear out campers 10 days later.
  — Julia O'Malley, Anchorage Daily News, 21 June 2019
• But both sources of energy are fickle: winds abate; clouds block the sun.
  — The Economist, 29 Nov. 2019
• In the meantime, dual air assaults have not abated, underscoring the deep mistrust between the two countries.
  — Constant Méheut, New York Times, 23 Mar. 2025