How to Use abiding in a Sentence

abiding

adjective

• I have an abiding interest in animal welfare—it's not just a phase I'm going through.
• Even babies too young to talk tune in, in a deep and abiding way, when they are held and read to.
  — Amy Dickinson, oregonlive, 23 Dec. 2019
• Even babies too young to talk with tune in, in a deep and abiding way, when they are held and read to.
  — Amy Dickinson, chicagotribune.com, 18 Dec. 2017
• This is an abiding complaint among young men in a country with a surfeit of them.
  — Steven Lee Myers, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2018
• That is a potent charge in a country with an abiding fear of Russia.
  — New York Times, 26 Oct. 2021
• Yet the Chills’ music put across an abiding belief in the power of a great song.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2024
• Who among us doesn’t harbor an abiding love for Nicolas Cage?
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• The two share a long and abiding respect for each other, perhaps even friendship.
  — The Washington Post, cleveland.com, 18 June 2017
• Her boss's abiding strategy is to double down and admit no wrong.
  — Amber Phillips, Washington Post, 5 June 2018
• That’s the deep and abiding issue and disconnect — that there is nothing to say.
  — Olivia Nuzzi, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Oct. 2017
• One of this nation’s most abiding myths is that social origins don’t matter.
  — Claire Messud, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2016
• With all its abiding flaws, liberalism offered a way out for those who didn’t conform to the demands of the clan.
  — Jennifer Szalai, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018
• Its abiding theme is the richness of friendship, an abundance more profound than anything under the tree.
  — Danny Heitman, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2018
• Even as Romney was remaking himself on the stump, his faith remained an abiding presence.
  — Michael Luo, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• Deeper still, whether Jupiter has a solid core is an abiding mystery — one that the Juno spacecraft has been tasked to solve.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 8 May 2017
• Their abiding emotion, however, was perhaps one of confusion.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
• And for feeling, as well, that an abiding sense of gratitude on this particular Thanksgiving may be elusive to achieve.
  — Michael S. Hopkins, The Christian Science Monitor, 25 Nov. 2020
• When Wednesday began, Josh James was at least one of the answers to the Astros’ most abiding question.
  — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 11 Sep. 2019
• His appreciation of New Orleans is informed by a deep and abiding respect for the elders who came before him.
  — National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2018
• Andrew’s relationships with his mother (Leslie Mann) is deep and abiding — and a bit complicated.
  — Mark Feeney, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
• Nobody much until now has taken seriously the idea that the 45th president is a man of deep and abiding faith who is just misconstrued as a heathen.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 14 July 2017
• There's family tragedy, struggle with drugs and deep poverty, but there's also children with a plucky spirit, adults who grapple for purchase against all odds and an abiding love that will stay with you for a long time.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 14 June 2022
• The abiding social hierarchy was as comforting as my dirty Martini, extra olives, and the squarely decent food.
  — Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2020
• The abiding theme of the book is that almost every influential figure in the Party has come to accept or submit to the President.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 16 July 2019
• That enduring popularity speaks to the way the game taps into deep and abiding strains of dominant American culture.
  — James Surowiecki, New York Times, 19 Dec. 2019
• During the eulogies, speakers remembered Barbara Bush for her abiding humor, sternness, and faith.
  — Benjamin Hart, Daily Intelligencer, 21 Apr. 2018
• Thomas Jefferson spoke of the abiding American conviction that tomorrow can be better than today.
  — Jon Meacham, Town & Country, 30 Oct. 2022
• Among the many factors that led to Trump’s unexpected victory last November was a deep and abiding skepticism among many voters about the wisdom of experts.
  — Jonathan S. Tobin, National Review, 15 Sep. 2017
• Yet whatever the circumstances, the characters who populate her songs have an abiding and unshakable likability.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
• Behind the statistics is an abiding strain of prejudice, dating back to the Puritan settlement, that sees cultural work, especially stage acting, as a species of child’s play or worse.
  — New York Times, 17 Mar. 2021