ABOMINATE in a Sentence

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As I thought of that, I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me, but I contained myself.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABOMINATE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
abominate
 v.  find repugnant
Classic Sentence: (47 in 4 pages)
1  He professed both to abominate and despise all mystery, refinement, and intrigue, either in a prince or a minister.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII.
2  For my part, I abominate all honourable respectable toils, trials, and tribulations of every kind whatsoever.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
3  As I thought of that, I was almost moved to begin a massacre of the helpless abominations about me, but I contained myself.
The Time Machine By H. G. Wells
Context  Highlight   In IX
4  The worst tenement abominations of New York do not have above twenty-two persons for every ten rooms.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In VIII
5  He was an abominable negro, and yet believed that he did me a great deal of honour.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XI
6  "Something very foolish and abominable," said Martin.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XXIII
7  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...
8  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
9  It was abominable that actual facts could reach such deformity.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
10  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
11  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...
12  "The abominable creature," murmured d'Artagnan.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 33 SOUBRETTE AND MISTRESS
13  "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
14  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
15  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
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.