How to Use abstract in a Sentence

abstract

1 of 3 adjective

• The word “poem” is concrete, the word “poetry” is abstract.
• Though that would be an abstract place for a ring of that kind.
  — Zizi Strater, Peoplemag, 25 May 2023
• The threats of climate change have long seemed abstract.
  — Laura Poppick, Smithsonian, 14 Feb. 2018
• But talking about it in the abstract or after the fact is one thing.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 13 Dec. 2021
• But then, the problem was that the fabric of this film is very abstract.
  — Patrick Brzeski, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2022
• Too much of the debate over what to do about policing is abstract.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 17 June 2020
• How can something be too on-the-nose and too abstract at once?
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 May 2020
• Lip service and abstract promises would no longer do the trick.
  — Sandra Matz, Wired, 24 Nov. 2021
• Much of the learning that goes on in the high school classroom is abstract and abstruse.
  — Mike McShane, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• But the change that struck me seemed more abstract and internal.
  — Kim Stanley Robinson, The New Yorker, 1 May 2020
• This is in some ways the most abstract of these fears, but also the most concrete.
  — Andrew Pulrang, Forbes, 28 May 2022
• On the wall was a large, mostly blue abstract painting.
  — oregonlive, 17 Mar. 2021
• And for many of us, this concept is still quite abstract and feels so far away.
  — Christopher Marquis, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• The hope wasn’t so abstract, the future not so dark and the clock not close to running out on them.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Feb. 2022
• These abstract art moment pop up in each room, adding ease and comfort to the space.
  — House Beautiful, 13 Sep. 2022
• The new play area looks something like an abstract sculpture.
  — John Delapp, Houston Chronicle, 18 June 2020
• Rather than a big abstract painting hung on the wall, the entire wall can be the bold statement.
  — Catherine Gaugh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2022
• We're obsessed with the sunny, beach-y abstract print and the sporty cut.
  — Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 13 May 2022
• My job is to make the material abstract through my art.
  — Cody Delistraty, WSJ, 28 Apr. 2021
• So all of these layered, mostly abstract pictures are in the shape of ovals.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 22 Nov. 2019
• What may seem like common sense to you may be more abstract to others.
  — Tarot Astrologers, chicagotribune.com, 9 Mar. 2021
• But those ideals cannot be realized in the abstract, away from the voting booths.
  — Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 20 May 2018
• The threat is too abstract for imagination alone to grasp.
  — Marion Renault, The New Republic, 3 May 2023
• The study’s abstract and full text are available online.
  — Maria Shine Stewart, cleveland, 22 Dec. 2019
• In this respect, both letters are new forms of abstract art.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 19 Aug. 2020
• Given the state of the world, though, this concept is almost abstract.
  — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 17 Dec. 2020
• But what if the trauma is more abstract and not so obvious?
  — Sarah Hosseini, chicagotribune.com, 11 Mar. 2018
• Four years ago, the branding was slightly more abstract.
  — Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2023
• And yet there are parts of language that are less abstract and arbitrary.
  — Kai Von Fintel, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Oct. 2022
• Iris' work is based on abstract sculptures and this dress is made from many tiny pieces of plastic.
  — Kristen Bateman, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 Aug. 2014

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abstract

2 of 3 noun

• 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
• 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
• Let woman’s claim be as broad in the concrete as in the abstract.
  — Anne Branigin, The Root, 15 Mar. 2018
• Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 5 May 2021
• In the abstract, this seems fairly easy for the Democrats to surmount.
  — Philip Bump, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2017
• There was a little bit of weird abstracts of heat and melting.
  — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Apr. 2019
• In the abstract, both halves of the contradiction are true.
  — Karen Stabiner, New York Times, 17 May 2018
• The full study isn't available online yet, but the abstract is.
  — Chelsea Brasted, NOLA.com, 5 June 2018
• Fishback moved his subject from the abstract to the concrete.
  — C.j. Chivers, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2023
• In the video abstract, Brennan says this seems to be the case for dolphins as well.
  — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2022
• The lesson is that the human brain deals more readily with the concrete than the abstract.
  — James Taranto, WSJ, 18 Jan. 2019
• Most of us understand those words only in the abstract.
  — J. B. MacKinnon, The Atlantic, 19 Mar. 2020
• 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
• This flesh-eating repertoire is hard enough to stomach in the abstract.
  — Marion Renault, The Atlantic, 2 June 2021
• Andy enjoyed these places in person, but never pined for them in the abstract.
  — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 29 Jan. 2016
• Someone had to stand up for Trumpism in the noble abstract.
  — Thomas Meaney, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
• The donor is an abstract throughout the previous seven episodes.
  — Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2020
• 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
• Polls have found that voters in the abstract would prefer a younger nominee.
  — Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2019
• This cool widget creates a title for your work based on your abstract.
  — Quora, Forbes, 18 May 2022
• In the abstract, the internet is a zone of digital freedom.
  — Tim Fernholz, Quartz, 25 Oct. 2020
• But a right that exists only in the abstract is difficult to protect.
  — Eric Magnuson, Star Tribune, 14 Mar. 2021
• Such statistics have become hard to fathom in the abstract.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2022
• The endless stream of abstracts comes from the preprint server bioRxiv.
  — Dalmeet Singh Chawla, Science | AAAS, 15 June 2017
• Resolving to change course sounds appealing in the abstract.
  — Damon Linker, The Week, 1 Feb. 2022
• 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
• 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 paper's abstract can be read, and the full paper downloaded, here.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 22 Aug. 2013

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abstract

3 of 3 verb

• Data for the study was abstracted from hospital records.
• Singer abstracts herself, the artist, from the work too.
  — Washington Post, 24 Dec. 2019
• It neither moves the plot forward nor wholly abstracts it.
  — Lauren Warnecke, chicagotribune.com, 17 Mar. 2018
• But there are many ways to abstract the data for public awareness.
  — Jeremiah Lindemann, Slate Magazine, 10 Aug. 2017
• Their goal is to abstract the ideas while maintaining softness.
  — Damon Johnstun, OregonLive.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Like an outbreak of the measles, abstracted mouse ears are everywhere.
  — Blair Kamin, chicagotribune.com, 12 Nov. 2019
• The new ones are better crafted but further abstracted.
  — Carl Wilson, Slate Magazine, 10 July 2017
• 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
• But the roundness of the earth has always been abstracted from human experience.
  — Justin E. H. Smith, Harper's Magazine, 21 Aug. 2022
• Once again, the woman’s story is consumed and abstracted and diffused into the acrid air.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 24 June 2019
• But the free-spirited Brits brought some wilder, abstracted motifs to the table.
  — Jonathan Evans, Esquire, 21 June 2013
• These are coming with new software platforms that abstract the applications away from the hardware.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 22 Mar. 2023
• But QISKit abstracts all those details for the system's users.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Mar. 2018
• The same process of abstracting away real-world failure can be seen in American conservatism.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 30 Apr. 2018
• From there, determine the context analytics must abstract for each of those sub-domains.
  — Amandeep Midha, Forbes, 19 May 2022
• Google can abstract an enormous amount of information from unstructured text.
  — Andrew Muchmore, STAT, 27 Mar. 2020
• Gliese is often at her best when she features closely cropped floral compositions that are slightly abstracted in terms of both form and color.
  — Mike Giuliano, Howard County Times, 18 Aug. 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
• 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
• Jacoby’s creation is one of several that can be seen as abstracted floral arrangements.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 July 2019
• The funding decisions the students felt abstracted from are similarly frustrating for educators on the front lines.
  — Lara N. Dotson-Renta, The Atlantic, 25 June 2017
• The Senate chamber has the oxygenated, time-abstracting atmosphere of a casino on a slow night, the same woozy contextlessness.
  — Charles Homans, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2017
• 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 fluid visual rhythms are complemented by a soundtrack of abstracted industrial noises.
  — J. Hoberman, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2020
• 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
• Humans, on the other hand, are often able to abstract away from existing examples in order to recognize new never-before-seen items.
  — Ryan Khurana, Scientific American, 2 Jan. 2021
• The subject matter is nominally secular, abstracted from nature: orbs and orifices, branches and seedpods, swirls of wind or wave.
  — Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 30 May 2018
• Gang’s design shares the methodical madness and off-kilter fragility of those designs, both abstracting and emulating the process of natural change.
  — Curbed, 25 Apr. 2023

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