How to Use abolition in a Sentence

abolition

noun

• The second must-do is the abolition of the debt ceiling.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
• Think of the role the churches played on the abolition issue.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Jan. 2020
• This week reminds us that the road to abolition does not run in a straight line.
  — Brian Stull, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
• Did the abolition of slavery create a right to go to the theater?
  — Amy Dru Stanley, Slate Magazine, 21 Dec. 2017
• After the Civil War, the abolition of slavery caused those in the U.S. to take a fresh look at workers’ rights.
  — Russ Bynum, Fortune, 16 Mar. 2024
• The game was facing strong criticism and even the threat of abolition.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 12 Sep. 2020
• Many saw the move as a step toward the abolition of birth restrictions.
  — WSJ, 14 Mar. 2018
• This process continued until the abolition of slave trade in the 1900s.
  — Nnamdi Madichie, Quartz, 29 Apr. 2021
• To be clear, the death of police officers is not what abolition is.
  — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2022
• There have been calls in recent years for prison abolition.
  — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2020
• Some favor not only the abolition of bail, but of prisons and the police.
  — Rob Kuznia, CNN, 21 Mar. 2023
• In fact, there were more slaves than colonists at the Cape during the century preceding the abolition of the slave trade in 1807.
  — Jaco Greeff, Quartz, 6 June 2021
• But there’s a long tradition at TNR of urging the abolition of the monarchy—and even advising Charles to be the one to do the deed.
  — Jason Linkins, The New Republic, 5 May 2023
• Today this is no longer the case—the prison abolition movement has gone mainstream.
  — Michelle Kuo, The New York Review of Books, 3 Aug. 2020
• Now our demands include the repeal of Promesa and the abolition of the fiscal board.
  — Michael Deibert, Fortune, 25 July 2019
• To say that the abolition of the Affordable Care Act somehow equals the end of democracy is the wrong way of framing things.
  — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 9 July 2021
• Now, Democrats have made the abolition of the filibuster a litmus test for their party.
  — The Editors, National Review, 21 Jan. 2022
• Why not force Joe Biden to take a clear stance on filibuster abolition?
  — Dylan Matthews, Vox, 1 Aug. 2019
• With the abolition of the Paramount decrees, the court has opened the door for history to repeat itself.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Aug. 2020
• The girl’s death intensified a debate in England over the abolition of the slave trade.
  — Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020
• The struggles of Afro-Colombians didn’t end with abolition.
  — Lori S. Robinson, The Root, 1 July 2017
• Reuben is careful not to take a stand on abolition himself.
  — Henry Gass, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Sep. 2020
• As long as there’s a royal family, there will be pomp and pageantry and polls about abolition.
  — Raven Smith, Vogue, 11 Jan. 2023
• This would nevertheless be a long way short of the schools’ abolition.
  — The Economist, 26 Sep. 2019
• In fact, Hamilton threw away his shot to take a stand on abolition early and often.
  — Aric Jenkins, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2020
• The hearing was held on Juneteenth, the anniversary of the 1865 abolition of slavery.
  — Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 19 June 2019
• It was founded in 1867, shortly after the end of the Civil War and abolition of slavery.
  — Scott Huddleston, ExpressNews.com, 13 June 2020
• The people who arrived on the ship were enslaved for five years, until abolition in 1865.
  — Brenda Medina, miamiherald, 25 Jan. 2018
• The name originates from a sugar estate that once produced rum and sugar before the abolition of slavery and continues to support the distillery with Jamaican molasses to this day.
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 2 June 2025
• While the mercurial Greeley and other radicals veered between strident demands for abolition, protests of the crackdown on civil liberties, and panicked calls for peace talks, Raymond stayed the course (or, at least, kept his wobbles private).
  — Matthew Karp, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025