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How to use abhor in a sentence

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Most Austrians and many other Europeans abhor capital punishment as cruel and inhumane.
I abhor my father and was relieved to be rid of the burden of his last name.
Government doctors and health care officials abhor postings in rural areas.
It is no accident that the surge in idolatrous reality television you so abhor coincided with this call to propaganda.
What could possibly justify our resort to the very means we properly abhor and condemn?
The act of killing thousands of innocent people is profoundly evil and we rightly abhor it.
These extremist ideologues abhor the very idea of a government program that works.
They say people hereabouts live on quinine during the month of September, and I abhor quinine, and army surgeons, you know are all allopathists.
But most abhor rearming with nuclear weapons, which is very unpopular with the general public.
They abhor hunters and fishermen, and want animals out of research labs, circuses, and aquariums.
Another tactic, which I abhor, was to use pepper, chilli or anything to irritate the hounds' noses.
They loathe tinsel, detest office parties and abhor rum balls of all kinds.
Understandably, pension officials abhor the notion of being linked to terrorism, even obliquely.
Their money is now being spent to promulgate ideas they abhor to their own children.
The vast majority of Canadians abhor victimizing children, and I'm sure everyone here today supports protecting our children.
I abhor the term 'dumping' in so far as it refers to food produced in excess of market requirements.
Clearly this has become a feature of parliamentary life which we should abhor.
I abhor terrorism and would support the right of any government to take appropriate measures to defend the lives of its citizens.
The Government of Canada would hope that all members of the House would abhor terrorism.
I abhor this, because by acting in this way, it has accepted things that are not found in any programme of any socialist party in any country.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Those who know the Cantabrigian guerilla respect his power, though they abhor his ways.
Many persons would secede on the non-admission of texian States who abhor disunion now.
I abhor myself, and from this hour, I forswear all woman-kind for your sake.
I should abhor these clandestine correspondences, were they not forced upon me.
For how can they who commit crimes be in good amity with those that abhor them?
It is only for being what is called by that name that I abhor him.
I came to hate the sight of the steward, to abhor the voice of that harmless man.
I did abhor those that were in the plot and conspiracy against the King.
If there is anything I mortally abhor, it is a tattler and busybody.
I abhor the appalling and moribund monkey language myself, which hasn't had a new noun since the Middle Ages.
The split infinitive I abhor, more as a matter of taste than argument.
Exaggeration I abhor, with whims I have nothing to do, and of quotation I am guiltless.
I dont at all like the idea of vaudeville, and I abhor a raffle!
We must also expunge the verse, which tells us how Pluto feared, Lest the mansions grim and squalid which the gods abhor should he seen both of mortals and immortals.
The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.
All this passed through my mind, and I strove to comfort myself without comfort, indulging in faint and distant hopes of cherishing that life that I now abhor.
I ABHOR violence and the legacy of suffering it leaves and, temperamentally, I think of myself as a fairly placid person.
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