How to use abide in a sentence

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• I don't agree with it, but I'll abide by the decision to give the reward to her.From the entry abide by
• The defendent has abided by my ruling in good faith.From the entry abide by
• For quotations using this term, see Citations:abides.From the entry abides
• “Of all this world's perversities, there is only one I cannot abide: the kink-shame.2025 May 11, Monica Padrick, “Don Tyxote” (11:26 from the start), in Krapopolis, season 2, episode 21, spoken by Shlub (Matt Berry). From the entry perversity
• But what’s law is law and you abide by the law of the land."2013 September 24, Manny Fernandez, “In Corner of Arkansas, Frustration but No Panic Over Possible Shutdown”, in New York Times, retrieved…. From the entry law of the land
• To have thoughts so unfretful we could abide with them alone for hours on end.2008, Farm journal Incorporated, Farm Journal, Volume 132. From the entry unfretful
• The agony of an oldman for being neglected in the family and ill-treated by his daughter-in-law, abides.2007, Bijay Kumar Das, Critical essays on post-colonial literature, page 146. From the entry oldman
• It struck him as Harry Potterish, but he respected the sources and so he abided.2006, Francis Paul Wilson, Harbingers, New York, N.Y.: Forge, →ISBN, page 81. From the entry Harry Potterish
• He is said to have forgotten that we have to abide our time.'1997, Film History - Volume 9, page 105. From the entry scenarise
• So she agreed to abide by his decision and the two of them went home.1992 September 8, Michael Allen, “Not a Charm?”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet). From the entry posken
• Hemstock (rather faintly): I canna abide to feel a man’s arms shiverin’ agen me.1941, D.H. Lawrence, The Merry-Go-Round, act I, scene 1. From the entry tallywag
• All art, to this fellow, must have a certain bawdiness, or he cannot abide it.1918, H[enry] L[ouis] Mencken, “The Tone Art”, in Damn! A Book of Calumny, New York, N.Y.: Philip Goodman, →OCLC, page 106. From the entry bedizen
• Let us unfog our minds, and abide by the eternal largesse of our hearts.1918, The Bookman - Volume 46, page 713. From the entry unfog
• To misaccuse the Basques was something the Spanish people could not abide, and they switched their vote to the socialists.2016, David McFadden, An Innocent in Cuba, →ISBN, page 348. From the entry misaccuse
• Among the laundry list of inconveniences most of us can't abide: cold coffee, airport delays, the high price of gasoline.2007 July 31, Ceri Au, “Fighting for the Right to Flush”, in Time. From the entry laundry list
• Abid Ali Majeed, 75, a shopowner, complained that the killers should never have been allowed so close to a populated area.2007 July 24, Richard A. Oppel, “Car Bombs Kill 12 People in One of Baghdad’s Safer Neighborhoods”, in New York Times. From the entry shopowner
• Polly couldn't abide Pat Walsh's bossy, jolly hockey-sticks manner and her curious predilection for calling absolutely everyone "babe."2003, Caroline Upcher, Falling for Mr. Wrong. From the entry jolly-hockey-sticks
• “I can't abide reading a book with underscorings in it.”2002, Jane Toombs, Nightingale Man, page 62. From the entry underscoring
• Nothing can show that he wants to abide by them.1996, Bridges: A Senegalese Journal of English Studies. From the entry lapalissade
• Einstein could not abide the randomness of quantum mechanics.1989 May, John Boslough, “Searching for the Secrets of Gravity”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 576. From the entry declare
• "Truth, sir, is that which can never pass away; the Truth of Life is Good Works, which abide everlastingly."1910, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 27, in The Broad Highway. From the entry good work
• There's a hierarchy to the taps in your house, and even if you don't observe it consciously you probably abide by it in some way.2023 January 26, Jack Vening, “The tap you drink from in your house says a lot about you”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian…. From the entry tap
• I can't abide pages of blither.2022, Frances Liardet, Think of Me, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, →ISBN, page 190. From the entry blither
• They abide by Charlie Kaufman’s beliefs.2022, Chris Jones, The Eye Test: A Case for Human Creativity in the Age of Analytics. From the entry heartswelling
• And then she said to her chamberer: It behoveth us no longer to abide here; and she said: Lady, whither will ye go?2020, Jacobus De Voragine, Wyatt North, The Golden Legend. From the entry chamberer
• Globaltech also urged PCSO to abide by the CA order to “forthwith submit themselves to arbitration conformably with the terms of their written agreement.”2019 February 14, Edu Punay, “Globaltech: PCSO defied CA on Peryahan games”, in The Philippine Star. From the entry conformably
• And the dude will not abide.2016, Jude Roberts, Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Popular Fantasy, →ISBN. From the entry rehymenate
• Underwriters who had already submitted their quotes at soft market prices wondered if it would be necessary to abide by those low quotes.2015, Paula Jarzabkowski, Rebecca Bednarek, Paul Spee, “Chapter 2: United We Stand, Divded We Fall: Bearing Risk Collectively”, in Making…. From the entry soft market
• He will not abide intellectually lazy thinking or any form of acquiescence to political correctness and its facile rituals of politeness and forced conviviality.2009, Gary Clark, Quadrant, November 2009, No. 461 (Volume LIII, Number 11), Quadrant Magazine Limited, page 8. From the entry conviviality
• We're just about a couple of miles from a market town where abides a nice little inn whence petrol can be obtained."1920, Margaret Pedler, chapter 29, in The Hermit of Far End. From the entry middle of nowhere
• There is an element out here that can't abide with the odds and they have no problem adoptin' a more larcenious attitude ta make things fall in their favor.2009, Alan Geoffrion, Brokentrail, Easyread Large edition. From the entry larcenious
• There not only jewels but also dangerous jinn abide: the inconvenient or resisted psychological powers that we have not thought or dared to integrate into our lives.1968, Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, 2nd edition, London: Fontana Press, published 1993, page 8. From the entry jinn

Meaning of abide

1. verb To endure without yielding; to withstand.
2. verb To bear patiently.
3. verb To pay for; to take the consequences of.

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Questions about abide in a sentence

How do you use abide in a sentence?

Abide is used as a verb. For example: “The old oak tree abides the wind endlessly.”

What is a short sentence with abide?

“The Dude abides.”

What does abide mean?

Abide means to endure without yielding; to withstand.