How to Use abide in a Sentence

abide

verb

• Push back on hate, let love abide.
  — Terry Collins, USA Today, 7 Feb. 2026
• Who couldn’t abide mask mandates.
  — Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 23 Jan. 2026
• Jones said players who do not abide by those rules would be benched.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 25 Oct. 2017
• But this is not a tour that comes even close to abiding on sound alone.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 3 Apr. 2024
• For once, Cherry abides and goes home.
  — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 10 Sep. 2025
• Even in the bizarro world of meat racing, there are still rules to abide by.
  — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
• Children must abide by the rules for keeping the elves at home.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
• The judge makes a ruling and both sides are supposed to abide by it.
  — Ashley Luthern, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Nov. 2021
• The very first of the five stages of grief is denial; we are not meant to abide there.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 Feb. 2021
• No matter how the laws are changed, there will be those who will not abide by the law.
  — Chicago Tribune, 21 July 2025
• But just because laws are passed doesn’t mean people will abide by them.
  — Rachel Ng, Outside Online, 27 Apr. 2022
• The Warriors have no choice but to abide by the same message.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 14 Mar. 2024
• Would Taylor abide by those rules if she was elected to the high court?
  — Hope Karnopp, jsonline.com, 29 Aug. 2025
• Twist has pushed its competitors to abide by the same standards.
  — David Willman and Joby Warrick, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Apr. 2023
• Dempsey is willing to abide but doesn’t want to see everything change at once.
  — Kelly Wynne, Peoplemag, 18 Sep. 2023
• In Lebowski terms, would our friendship abide?
  — Olga Khazan, The Atlantic, 1 Sep. 2025
• The other five children, though, must abide by the strict schedule.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, PEOPLE.com, 14 June 2018
• When the left villainizes law-abiding gun owners, that sucks.
  — Glamour, 14 Aug. 2019
• This stat alone is proof of the no-win norm that we, as a society, have been groomed to abide by.
  — Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 23 Jan. 2021
• Parents and staffers must abide by their choice for at least the first full semester of school.
  — Hannah Natanson, Washington Post, 30 June 2020
• Just training a cat to wear a harness can take weeks — and some cats simply won’t abide it.
  — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Nov. 2023
• What is the moral duty of the CFOs here to abide by that rule?
  — WSJ, 18 June 2017
• That means Congress does not have to abide by what a president wants.
  — Danielle Kurtzleben, NPR, 2 May 2025
• But the deputies have the authority to cite people who do not abide by the rules.
  — Michael Smolens Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Sep. 2020
• But while the appeal plays out, the legal party must abide by the ruling.
  — Will Rogers, Baltimore Sun, 22 July 2025
• All of them left me with an abiding awareness of the vastness of the universe.
  — Erica Rex, STAT, 19 Feb. 2026
• You are forced to make that decision to break the law by going to work, or to abide by it and stay home.
  — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 7 Apr. 2022
• These combinations are not for corn purists who abide by their butter and salt.
  — Beth Dooley, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
• Now, the country has pledged to abide by the warrant if Netanyahu lands there.
  — Ron Kampeas, Sun Sentinel, 26 Nov. 2024
• But the Dude was fun, the Dude had a sharp tongue, the Dude abided.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023