How to Use abjection in a Sentence

abjection

noun

• Mitchell performed abjection at her past self, cringing at every photo.
  — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 May 2024
• Her experience taught her both the power and the abjection of a life lived on public display.
  — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
• How much provocation will be accepted; how much abjection is still lovable?
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2024
• Baywatch could have done with more such goofy meta-moments, treating the human body as a site of pleasure and fun rather than abjection and derision.
  — Dana Stevens, Slate Magazine, 25 May 2017
• Other painters found the basic form of Millet’s workers compelling, but balked at their misery and abjection.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2020
• These books — so vaunted for their bravery, their abjection — are also, indisputably, an account of getting one’s own way.
  — New York Times, 19 Jan. 2021
• The triumph of self-abjection serves as a soothing narrative hook in a certain species of female-survivorship tale.
  — Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
• Though Houston is so elegant on the abjection attending desire, there’s a lot of sharp hope in these stories.
  — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025
• This can involve extreme suffering or abjection; happiness is hardly the point.
  — Nicole Flattery, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• The premise gets stretched thinner still when, from under the stained pants and tattered tank tops that present Survivor as a sober study of communal abjection, mic packs peek out.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 14 May 2020
• Rodrigo clearly understands that his band’s essence lies not only in its dreamy guitars but also in the total abjection beneath them.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026
• Their authors also each humble characters who cling to superficial social graces in an attempt to evade abjection.
  — Hannah Gold, New Yorker, 17 June 2026
• Their work forgoes relatability to revel in delusion, with all its abjection and pathos—especially their own.
  — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 15 Aug. 2024
• The character careened between triumph and slapstick abjection as the puppeteers moved him across a long table with artificial turf.
  — Siddhartha Mitter, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2020
• While the results vary, this cycle of abjection and memeification is one of the central rituals of life in certain areas of the social internet.
  — Paul McAdory, Them., 9 Dec. 2025
• Her Roberta is prepared to drown in her own abjection, but Abbott’s Danny keeps throwing himself to her as a lifeline.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• Shawkat, with her warm, amused eyes and her mop of curls, is a perfect carrier for Mae’s air of abjection, flopping around her bed like a horny, gloomy Raggedy Ann.
  — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
• Both authors are irreverent and unorthodox, both are drawn to abjection, and both engage in an extended reckoning with their own mothers.
  — Eula Biss, The New Yorker, 22 Apr. 2021
• The abjection my mother endured was organized and funded by the city—from the police officers, to the judges, to the reporters who circled our house, hungry to add to their narratives.
  — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 23 Dec. 2022
• What is harder to parse is how precisely the pain and abjection that Carey describes in such detail yielded her confidence, determination, and skill.
  — Emily Lordi, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2020
• Balsam is marvelous throughout, precisely measured in portraying a state often teetering on abjection.
  — Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 7 May 2020
• The end point isn’t self-realization, but abjection, the would-be interpreter gibbering before the staggering number of connections.
  — Hari Kunzru, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• Both writers suggest that after six decades of upheaval, abjection defines Cuban existence more than resistance to adversity.
  — Coco Fusco, The New York Review of Books, 24 Mar. 2020
• The transition from darkness to dazzling light, a shock designed to induce a physical crisis, to reduce the subject to a state of abjection, nothing but a half-blind animal, stunned and panicking.
  — Hari Kunzru, The New Yorker, 29 June 2020
• Nothing that reflects the sheer abjection of the murderous dog pounds of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries or the many individual cruelties visited upon dogs.
  — Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
• The kinds that imagine women’s sexuality beyond the limitations of abjection.
  — Angelica Jade Bastién, Vulture, 25 Apr. 2025
• In this era, in our own context of a panicked abjection of trans bodies, the dominant narratives for trans people, and trans women in particular, are so often devoid of desire in a typical sense.
  — Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
• The effectiveness of body horror as a tool for instilling fear and discomfort and approximating abjection depends upon this conviction.
  — Literary Hub, 31 Oct. 2025
• Chiron and Paula certainly suffer (and inflict suffering on each other), but they are liberated from the standard indie-film arc of abjection and redemption.
  — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 20 Oct. 2016
• His arc is also, unfortunately — despite some punishingly long sequences in which Safdie channels the character’s abjection — the murkiest.
  — Lili Loofbourow, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2023