How to Use abhorrence in a Sentence

abhorrence

noun

• But abhorrence of the fence is a rare issue on which the two parties can agree.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 3 Apr. 2021
• Even so, Facebook seems to have crossed the line of tolerable abhorrence for some tech workers.
  — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 10 June 2020
• In real life, of course, there are no fairies, and Bianco had a lifelong abhorrence of the coddling of children.
  — Vulture, 8 Nov. 2022
• So Sargent was willing to suspend his abhorrence and make an exception.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2020
• The two sisters came to share an abhorrence of the slave system on which their family’s wealth and position depended.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
• Thirteen years apart, the two sisters came to share an abhorrence of the slave system on which their family’s wealth and position depended.
  — Drew Gilpin Faust, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2022
• The non-Western response to the West’s newfound abhorrence of slavery was not a welcoming one.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 22 Sep. 2020
• What is Beaux-Arts but the abhorrence of undecorated surfaces, right?
  — Douglas Brenner, House Beautiful, 1 Apr. 2012
• The newspapers have issued special editions with black borders, expressing abhorrence of the crime.
  — sandiegouniontribune.com, 29 June 2018
• Like the tea parties, it was rooted in an abhorrence of taxation (with or without representation).
  — Clyde Haberman, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2016
• But your abhorrence of the outcomes of particular elections doesn’t justify your saying, Well, the hell with that.
  — Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
• But what is distinct is the way this push toward new technologies is matched with an abhorrence for the human body’s sheer squishy vulnerability in the face of steel and circuit.
  — Jake Muncy, WIRED, 13 Nov. 2015
• However, the Grinch is known for his abhorrence of Christmas and everything the season represents.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 5 Dec. 2024
• Morell was a career CIA officer, imbued with the agency’s trademark abhorrence of anyone who leaks secrets.
  — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 15 Sep. 2017
• Because of their disorder, the subjects seem paralyzed by a fascination with and abhorrence of their sheer physicality.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 28 June 2018
• To assume that liberalism is the only system that can justify or explain an abhorrence of bigotry is to ignore a wealth of moral traditions that are at least equally formative.
  — Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 3 July 2024
• Bennett suggests threatening to fly reconnaissance aircraft along the country's coast, playing off Kim's abhorrence for spying.
  — Shannon K. Crawford, ABC News, 10 June 2022
• Edelstein’s contrary nature, his resistance to political interference in pastoral life, his abhorrence of silence, continues to this day.
  — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 4 Feb. 2023
• Honda has made controlling volume simple with a dial on the center stack and an improved steering-wheel control, but the automaker’s abhorrence of buttons for tuning remains a mystery and a source of annoyance.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2017
• The problem for me is that climate change is not present the way slavery was and there are no heinous images of its existence that future generations will regard with the same abhorrence that is elicited today by visual reminders of slavery's past.
  — Keith Kloor, Discover Magazine, 29 Oct. 2010
• Certainly, not all of his followers will go to Macron, but abhorrence of the extreme right is still a stronger motive for the French left than is abhorrence of the liberal center, strong though that motive is, as well.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2022
• At the most meaningful level of identity, this tradition joins Ukrainians and Russians, as well as millions of others throughout the world, who watch with abhorrence the scandal of this invasion.
  — Tim Kelleher, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
• Scrolling through phones while dining, in meetings, and even while actively speaking to other people, is so commonplace that at this point there is little cultural abhorrence surrounding their use in almost any daily activity.
  — J.q. Louise, WSJ, 15 Apr. 2019
• Adams has repeatedly reiterated his abhorrence of the city’s rats, recently launching a concerted effort to rid the streets of its most notorious furry inhabitants.
  — Celina Tabor, CNN, 7 Dec. 2022
• Instead, Amazon’s accommodations have been rewarded with a growing bipartisan abhorrence for mega-cap tech companies.
  — Jerry Bowyer, National Review, 19 Apr. 2021
• This position is airily remote from the affective texture of moral life, from the motivating complex of sentiments — whether admiration or abhorrence — that certain actions can produce.
  — New York Times, 28 June 2022
• The reality is that few members of Congress will align themselves with a statement bereft of asserting America’s abhorrence for the murder of political opponents.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
• The ambivalence of André and his parents was culturally unexceptional, but Simone’s abhorrence wasn’t.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024
• Fellow Black television sitcom actress Janet Hubert also tweeted out her abhorrence for Rashad's support, directly calling her out.
  — Shelby Stewart, Chron, 1 July 2021
• Living and learning in Germany, however, produced in her an abhorrence of German culture, with its pervasive ethic of Pflicht—duty or high seriousness.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022