How to Use abhor in a Sentence

abhor

verb

• Mertz abhors food waste, down to the micro level.
  — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 27 Mar. 2026
• The man abhors them the same way the Longhorns despise the Sooners.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 11 Apr. 2020
• Isn’t this the sort of private gain at public expense that people on the left claim to abhor?
  — Michael Solon, WSJ, 26 June 2019
• Gore gave it a listen, but was quickly abhorred by the salacious content.
  — Colson Thayer, People.com, 28 Apr. 2025
• There’s an old axiom in physics, which states that nature abhors a vacuum.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 Apr. 2025
• The one caveat is that these are not dishwasher safe, so might not be great for people who abhor hand-washing.
  — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2017
• Big-time scammers abhor blowing even cheap foreign labor on calls that victims hang up on.
  — Charles Hammer, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2024
• Solar panels, which abhor the shade of not only trees but also tall buildings.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 3 May 2021
• Yet nature abhors a vacuum, and there is no greater vacuum than space.
  — Lee Habeeb, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Apr. 2025
• We are trained now to abhor the nuisance in everything, while missing the wonder.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• The president also cited his father as the one who taught him to abhor the abuse of power.
  — James Rainey, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2024
• But that said, there is an opening, and ambition abhors a vacuum.
  — James Bickerton, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
• Scientists as a rule tend to abhor misleading people or out-and-out lying.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2012
• Writing off vast swaths of Americans fuels trends most of the nation abhors.
  — Jamil Zaki, TIME, 23 Nov. 2024
• This kind of scrutiny, long abhorred by the tech industry, should now be welcomed by our society.
  — Hemant Taneja, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2018
• But the Wit, if used too often, is a perilous magic, and one abhorred by the nobility.
  — Ashlee Conour, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026
• Automakers would prefer to avoid a fight over emissions and abhor the prospect of dueling guidelines.
  — Russ Mitchell, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Investors abhor uncertainty and tend to sell stocks in the months leading up to an election when the outcome is unknown.
  — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Why, these extremists abhor the very idea that Hutchinson would want to protect sinful perverts with a hate-crime law.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2021
• The idea of harming an innocent person, for any reason, abhors most of us, no matter our ethical stance.
  — Daniel Burke, CNN, 23 Apr. 2020
• But nature abhors a vacuum, and into that void has stepped a revolution.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 19 May 2026
• The problem is, the internet abhors a vacuum.
  — Andrew Greif, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026
• Shooting the skateparks from a single angle would have required a wide-angle fisheye lens, which Zaki abhors.
  — Michael Hardy, WIRED, 1 July 2019
• Meanwhile, their mother abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want to take on the work of raising a family.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• But the West once abhorred the vacuum; only the East truly understood it.
  — Phil Patton, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• The Ravens abhor cutting draft picks in their first year, so Scott, a fourth-rounder, and Lasley, a fifth-rounder, will have to play their way off the team.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, baltimoresun.com, 1 May 2018
• But Madame Bernard, known as Fanny, abhorred the work that her father’s money made possible.
  — Emily Anthes, Slate Magazine, 18 Jan. 2017
• For someone who made his monster on the parts plucked from the back of LPs, Becker sure abhorred obvious credits.
  — Kelly Dwyer, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2017
• The July 4 week was a quiet one in Washington, but the news business abhors a vacuum.
  — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 13 July 2017
• Gerbera daisies abhor overhead irrigation that can lead to mildew problems and grow splendidly when surrounded by gravel or wood chips.
  — Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 11 Oct. 2025