ABOMINABLE in a Sentence

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1. Murder is the most abominable crime.
2. Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.
3. The prisoners are forced to live in abominable conditions.
4. The President described the killings as an abominable crime.
5. It was abominable that actual facts could reach such deformity.

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abominable
 a.  detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  He was an abominable negro, and yet believed that he did me a great deal of honour.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
2  "Something very foolish and abominable," said Martin.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
3  It seemed to him that the mysterious words of these men, so strangely hidden behind that wall, and crouching in the snow, could not but bear some relation to Jondrette's abominable projects.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIII—SOLUS CUM SOLO, IN LOCO REMOTO, NON COGITABU...
4  There he stood, almost incapable of movement or reflection, as though annihilated by the abominable things viewed at such close quarters.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XX—THE TRAP
5  It was abominable that actual facts could reach such deformity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
6  So you are going to be perfectly contented in your abominable Rue de l'Homme Arme.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—THE LOWER CHAMBER
7  You will depart to-morrow, for America, with your daughter; for your wife is dead, you abominable liar.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN...
8  "The abominable creature," murmured d'Artagnan.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
9  "What I heard was abominable," said Utterson.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER DR. JEKYLL WAS QUITE AT EASE
10  In the end he will want to spew you out as the abominable thing.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 19
11  And they will now see their cousin treated as she ought to be, and I wish they may be heartily ashamed of their own abominable neglect and unkindness.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
12  The rooms were carefully examined, and results all pointed to an abominable crime.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VI. THE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIP
13  The matches were of that abominable kind that light only on the box.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In X
14  I cannot convey the sense of abominable desolation that hung over the world.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In XI
15  It was now quite plain that he must be some abominable savage or other shipped aboard of a whaleman in the South Seas, and so landed in this Christian country.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 3. The Spouter-Inn.
Example Sentence:
1  Their cruel treatment of prisoners was abominable.
2  Murder is the most abominable crime.
3  The President described the killings as an abominable crime.
4  The prisoners are forced to live in abominable conditions.
5  Mary liked John until she learned he was dating Susan; then she called him an abominable young man.