How to Use abstract in a Sentence

abstract

1 of 3 adjective

• The word “poem” is concrete, the word “poetry” is abstract.
• Grief is a very abstract thing.
  — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2025
• The choice is no longer abstract.
  — Anabel Mendoza, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2026
• The moral stakes are not abstract.
  — Jason Snyder, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• Those risks are no longer abstract.
  — Josh Rottenberg, Twin Cities, 31 Dec. 2025
• This year, the theme is more abstract.
  — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 22 June 2026
• Those three words might sound abstract.
  — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2026
• In an abstract way, that’s how all my records start.
  — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 25 Feb. 2026
• This project wasn’t just a good idea in some abstract way.
  — Jimmy Wales, Time, 28 Oct. 2025
• Though that would be an abstract place for a ring of that kind.
  — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
• For John and me, this is not abstract.
  — Bill Schiffmiller, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• For Høegh, the stakes are not abstract.
  — Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 16 Jan. 2026
• This is not a rare or abstract issue.
  — Susan Madsen, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• This is not an abstract question for me.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
• Here, hot pink chrome hearts and abstract swirls melt across a nude and blush base.
  — Ariel Wodarcyk, InStyle, 6 Feb. 2026
• Her words are a reminder that the stakes are not abstract.
  — Loree Sutton, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Oct. 2025
• For now, the numbers are no longer abstract.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 June 2026
• In health care, the stakes are never abstract.
  — Prof. Dr. Med. Mazda Farshad, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
• The concept seems far off and abstract.
  — Dan Gilroy, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2025
• And that fear does not remain abstract.
  — Adam Abutaa, Sun Sentinel, 21 June 2026
• How can something be too on-the-nose and too abstract at once?
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 May 2020
• These are not abstract values and virtues.
  — Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 19 Jan. 2026
• Not in some big, sweeping, abstract way.
  — Matthew Emerzian, PEOPLE, 21 June 2026
• The human cost is not abstract.
  — Teresa Ghilarducci, Boston Herald, 18 May 2026
• This is not an abstract dilemma.
  — Nizan Geslevich Packin, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
• The prompts read like tiny, abstract poems.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2025
• Peace is not some abstract concept.
  — Abigail R. Hall, Oc Register, 8 June 2026
• By the end of the week, the awards-season map will look far less abstract.
  — Clayton Davis, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
• And for many of us, this concept is still quite abstract and feels so far away.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• And that’s not an abstract concept.
  — David Frum, The Atlantic, 22 Apr. 2026

abstract

2 of 3 noun

• At this point, that still seems like an abstract.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2026
• But the abstract of this study was just too funny not to share.
  — Seriously Science, Discover Magazine, 7 Mar. 2018
• This is something you can be told, and grasp in the abstract.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2020
• There was a little bit of weird abstracts of heat and melting.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2019
• Let woman’s claim be as broad in the concrete as in the abstract.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 15 Mar. 2018
• The full study isn't available online yet, but the abstract is.
  — Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com, 5 June 2018
• So this morning, here's a quick reprieve from the abstract.
  — Nick Suss, Nashville Tennessean, 31 Oct. 2025
• That is one in nine (or 50 million) jobs, and these are not jobs in the abstract.
  — Tom Marchant, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Mar. 2020
• This cool widget creates a title for your work based on your abstract.
  — Quora, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• Andy enjoyed these places in person, but never pined for them in the abstract.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2016
• In the abstract, this seems fairly easy for the Democrats to surmount.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2017
• This flesh-eating repertoire is hard enough to stomach in the abstract.
  — Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• For art that doesn’t age out, focus on graphic abstracts in bright colors.
  — Sunset, 22 Jan. 2018
• In the video abstract, Brennan says this seems to be the case for dolphins as well.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022
• Damn the rich in the open and in the abstract, court them in the concrete and secret of darkness.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, Arkansas Online, 5 Dec. 2022
• Fishback moved his subject from the abstract to the concrete.
  — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• The references include a drop down with the abstract.
  — John Werner, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 5 May 2021
• Polls have found that voters in the abstract would prefer a younger nominee.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• Algorithmic harm framed in the abstract does not.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 15 May 2026
• But, the bill says, this must be done no later than seven days after the abstract is prepared.
  — Alex Briseno, Dallas News, 18 Mar. 2021
• The paper's abstract can be read, and the full paper downloaded, here.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Aug. 2013
• Below, a roundup of our favorite masks on the market along with costume ideas that range from the abstract to the bold.
  — Malia Griggs, SELF, 22 Oct. 2020
• The species may have lived on until the 1700s, an abstract for the report says.
  — Joel Shannon, USA TODAY, 21 June 2018
• The lesson is that the human brain deals more readily with the concrete than the abstract.
  — James Taranto, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• The donor is an abstract throughout the previous seven episodes.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2020
• But a right that exists only in the abstract is difficult to protect.
  — Eric Magnuson, Star Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
• That’s tidy in the abstract, and if a lawyer is served with a subpoena for information.
  — Michael B. Mukasey, WSJ, 17 Apr. 2018
• The lesson of Apple is that freedom of the press doesn’t exist in the abstract.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 21 June 2021
• In the visual arts, it is contrasted with the abstract or the symbolic.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018

abstract

3 of 3 verb

• Data for the study was abstracted from hospital records.
• But there are many ways to abstract the data for public awareness.
  — Jeremiah Lindemann, Slate Magazine, 10 Aug. 2017
• The process of abstracting huge news events into memes has become much faster.
  — Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 14 Feb. 2026
• Their goal is to abstract the ideas while maintaining softness.
  — Damon Johnstun, OregonLive.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• He himself is abstracted, thinking about the second lead.
  — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
• War becomes abstracted into green and red numbers.
  — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026
• Once again, the woman’s story is consumed and abstracted and diffused into the acrid air.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 June 2019
• The aggregator’s job is to abstract away the unique processes of each airline.
  — Serge Lucio, Forbes.com, 8 Sep. 2025
• Yet much of today's training data abstracts those properties away.
  — Alexandre De Vigan, Forbes.com, 13 Feb. 2026
• The villager-player is abstracted in the form of a ball chasing other balls around a bucolic scene.
  — Hart Fowler, Ars Technica, 25 Feb. 2020
• Williams abstracts those qualities.
  — Justin Davidson, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2026
• But QISKit abstracts all those details for the system's users.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
• These are coming with new software platforms that abstract the applications away from the hardware.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2023
• What’s changing now is the ability to abstract that complexity away.
  — Jeff Fromm, Forbes.com, 15 May 2026
• Google can abstract an enormous amount of information from unstructured text.
  — Andrew Muchmore, STAT, 27 Mar. 2020
• From there, determine the context analytics must abstract for each of those sub-domains.
  — Amandeep Midha, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• But the roundness of the earth has always been abstracted from human experience.
  — Justin E. H. Smith, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2022
• The category that was trying to abstract away code is now competing against a world in which writing code is no longer the bottleneck.
  — Ethan Pronev, Forbes.com, 28 May 2026
• The same process of abstracting away real-world failure can be seen in American conservatism.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Apr. 2018
• Viewed from above, the world became abstracted and patterned—a new sphere of vertical operations.
  — Simon Denny, Artforum, 20 Apr. 2026
• Helios also comes with a software stack that abstracts its user’s intentions from the actual qubit hardware.
  — ArsTechnica, 17 June 2026
• Medicine taught me that responsibility can’t be abstracted away.
  — Marc Serota, Forbes.com, 5 Feb. 2026
• Abstracting from life was also striking the art world during this time, with abstract expressionism giving way to color-field painting and pop art.
  — Gayle Clemans, The Seattle Times, 15 May 2017
• Printed on silver gelatin paper and linen, the new work for her solo show seems to strip away and then reconstruct the world around her, abstracting it again and again to create a single print.
  — OregonLive.com, 3 Jan. 2018
• Having med students reading charts and abstracting them is just too slow, and so these tools that use natural language processing to extract the records are very useful.
  — Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | AAAS, 21 Dec. 2017
• In fact, the mathematical toy models that physicists use are good at abstracting things like the relationship between species.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 July 2019
• But so many of us still have the luxury, with our clean air and water, our safety, our lack of proximity, of abstracting disaster into polemic instead.
  — Sarah Stankorb, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• The splashing water captured by the camera is abstracted into a nebulous fog that dissolves the profile of a Parisian bridge in the background.
  — Erika Landström, Artforum, 2 June 2026
• It is printed and abstracted in old English typeface on khaki coats and separates, and in modern monochrome on an oversized hoodie.
  — Blue Carreon, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• And figures like Grace Hopper were formative in abstracting software from hardware — fomenting its emergence as a field in its own right.
  — Stephen Phillips, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 June 2018