How to Use abhor in a Sentence

abhor

verb

• The man abhors them the same way the Longhorns despise the Sooners.
  — Nick Moyle, ExpressNews.com, 11 Apr. 2020
• Some even used the words the union abhors more than any other: salary cap.
  — Stephanie Apstein, SI.com, 10 July 2019
• It’s the use of a legislative tool to block bills you abhor.
  — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 30 June 2021
• Isn’t this the sort of private gain at public expense that people on the left claim to abhor?
  — Michael Solon, WSJ, 26 June 2019
• Sadly the thing is this: Institutions of all sorts abhor risk and work.
  — Clem Chambers, Forbes, 7 June 2021
• We are trained now to abhor the nuisance in everything, while missing the wonder.
  — Washington Post, 30 Apr. 2021
• The one caveat is that these are not dishwasher safe, so might not be great for people who abhor hand-washing.
  — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2017
• Investors abhor uncertainty and tend to sell stocks in the months leading up to an election when the outcome is unknown.
  — Erin Arvedlund, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Nature abhors a vacuum, and China will be quick to fill it.
  — WSJ, 13 June 2023
• But not everyone — even those who abhor Trump — think that voting is the answer.
  — Erin Corbett, refinery29.com, 29 Oct. 2020
• Solar panels, which abhor the shade of not only trees but also tall buildings.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 3 May 2021
• Automakers would prefer to avoid a fight over emissions and abhor the prospect of dueling guidelines.
  — Russ Mitchell, chicagotribune.com, 3 Dec. 2019
• Because of the enhancer, a young man was quickly tainted by an allegation we all abhor.
  — Roy S. Johnson | [e-mail], al, 13 May 2022
• Scientists as a rule tend to abhor misleading people or out-and-out lying.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2012
• Meanwhile, their mother abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want to take on the work of raising a family.
  — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 10 Aug. 2017
• But the West once abhorred the vacuum; only the East truly understood it.
  — Phil Patton, Esquire, 29 Jan. 2007
• But nature abhors a vacuum, so talent will always fill in.
  — Tom Perrotta, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• This kind of scrutiny, long abhorred by the tech industry, should now be welcomed by our society.
  — Hemant Taneja, Fortune, 2 Apr. 2018
• Retail abhors a vacuum, and the sparkling water category has risen as soda sales have slumped.
  — Laura Entis, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2017
• Working in concert, the receptor cells keep us alive by making us crave or abhor certain edibles.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 6 Apr. 2020
• And history shows that the global system, like nature, abhors a vacuum.
  — chicagotribune.com, 21 June 2017
• For conservatives who abhor Trumpism this presents a hard dilemma.
  — Ross Douthat, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2016
• Jobs initially abhorred the idea of allowing software developers to write programs for the phone.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 11 July 2018
• Why, these extremists abhor the very idea that Hutchinson would want to protect sinful perverts with a hate-crime law.
  — John Brummett, Arkansas Online, 25 Apr. 2021
• The idea of harming an innocent person, for any reason, abhors most of us, no matter our ethical stance.
  — Daniel Burke, CNN, 23 Apr. 2020
• But like nature, wily event planners also abhor a vacuum.
  — Catherine Bigelow, SFChronicle.com, 10 Dec. 2019
• For someone who made his monster on the parts plucked from the back of LPs, Becker sure abhorred obvious credits.
  — Kelly Dwyer, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2017
• Shooting the skateparks from a single angle would have required a wide-angle fisheye lens, which Zaki abhors.
  — Michael Hardy, WIRED, 1 July 2019
• The paradox of nature tourism is that tourism, like any industry, depends on customers, but nature abhors people.
  — Andrew Marantz, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Apr. 2016
• Mother Nature, as the adage goes, must really abhor a vacuum.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 21 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 27 Mar 2024