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How to use abhors in a sentence

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The president abhors dissent and is totally dismissive not only of dissenters, but also of the people's right to dissent.
He abhors the fast food culture and, as a student, can't understand why many of his peers are content to be couch potatoes.
Our organisation abhors this kind of act and appeals to residents to be vigilant and watch out for any suspicious goings-on.
He loves the rich movement vocabulary and the technical skills, but abhors the coldness and infantilism.
What I do care about is my wife, and she abhors the way I smell after smoking a stogie.
The anti-globalization left, which abhors property rights of any kind, loathes patents, and quickly found a weak spot in the case of health.
Inside every one of us lies a Puritan streak which abhors anything smacking of frivolity or done for the sheer joy of it.
Strong words indeed for a fellow who abhors political smear and accuses others of engaging in it!
They come under his jurisdiction, it is true, but he personally abhors those acts.
However, it obviously cannot involve either, because the university is famously progressive, and hence abhors both sins.
I make this prediction based on what we know about biology, which is that natures abhors uniformity.
She's prone to plain speaking and abhors hype, so she's admittedly uncomfortable with self-promotion.
He is a driven man who abhors the notion that sport is not about the winning, but the taking part.
Bauer is aware that current momentum is pointing towards the one-state solution, an outcome he abhors.
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, the city cannot abide a void.
I'm one of those people who is always on time, and abhors lateness.
But politics, like nature, abhors a vacuum and it stands to reason that there must be a vacancy for a party of the right in Scotland, just as in every other European nation.
He abhors anything that adds to the cost of doing business, and politicians who show insufficient urgency about tackling the wider threats to business.
As we know, just as physical nature abhors a vacuum, so does a political nature.
This bill must be amended to clearly state what is legitimate, what is lawful, what is a part of our society, and what this society abhors.
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Examples from Classical Literature
It abhors the absence of proprietary or possessory rights as a kind of vacuum.
The sullen door, Yet uninfected, on its cautious hinge Fearing to turn, abhors society.
To say that he abhorred Greek ideals is to say that the shepherd abhors the wolf.
But to think of living with and living for a man one abhors, what a sad thing is that!
If he has sometimes worked wrong by us, he has been driven to do that which in his soul he abhors.
Nature, though eager for cross-fertilisation, abhors 'miscegenation' with all the bitterness of an American politician.
How is it possible for a poor mercer, who detests Huguenots and who abhors Spaniards, to be accused of high treason?
These are the vices which true philanthropy abhors, and which rather than see and converse with, she avoids society itself.
But they had lived in a world that abhors enigmas, and cares for no gifts but such as can be obtained in the street.
Plato affirms, almost in so many words, that nature abhors a vacuum.
An enemy to spasms in every form, he abhors the Spasmodic School of Poets.
Thus the Gael abhors the very roads that lead to a plague-struck dwelling.
Even Cobbett, who abhors the dash, permits it to be used for this purpose.
In these great wastes of forest, life, which abhors darkness, struggles ever upwards to the light.
A man cannot be condemned for a murder at which he was not present, and which he loathes and abhors as much as you do.
That the stoppage is not a fact, because nature abhors a vacuum?
Wilde is highly critical of Lane's handling of the matter of publishing the play and abhors Lane's shilly-shallying.
It is that complacence and senescence of civilizations and peoples that Lovecraft abhors and which he expresses so powerfully in his prose.
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