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How to use abode in a sentence

23 example sentences · noun, verb

Abode means act of waiting; delay. Example: “They returned to their respective places of abode.”

Examples of abode by meaning

nounA residence, dwelling or habitation.

  • of no fixed abode
  • Perchance some faint rumour of me may have leaked within the confines of your hellish abode.”1913 January–May, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Gods of Mars”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as...

More sentences with abode

  • They returned to their respective places of abode.From the entry respective
  • To a man of honour a kick is noting, a blow is noting, de soul is de abode of glory, honour, pride.From the entry noting
  • It shall be the haunt of jackals, an abode for ostriches.2018, Michael Coogan, Marc Brettler, Carol Newsom, The New Oxford Annotated Bible with Apocrypha. From the entry haunt
  • The Heavenly Sovereign made a progress to the abode of I-suke-yori-hime, and augustly slept (there) one night.2014, Kurt Singer, The Life of Ancient Japan, →ISBN. From the entry augustly
  • Now, in Tossim’s habitation there abode a female chattel servant cognominally known as Morgenthaunia.2005, Charles Manley Brown, Thou Shalt Not Take Thyself Too… Seriously: The Lighter Side of the Golden Years, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN…. From the entry cognominally
  • This abode of snow is the loftiest mountain range on earth.1989 December 30, P[ritamial] V[ijoyshanker] Bole, “Introduction”, in 100 Himalayan Flowers, New York, N.Y.: The Vendome Press, published…. From the entry Mount Everest
  • Secondly, modern criticism argues that a tangible or palpable body is not adapted to a superterrestrial abode.1979, Henry Clarence Thiessen, Vernon D. Doerksen, Lectures in Systematic Theology. From the entry superterrestrial
  • The kingdom of heaven; heaven as the abode of the blessed.1955, Joseph T. Shipley, Dictionary of Early English, Philosophical Library, →ISBN, page 326. From the entry heavenriche
  • Knott abode, in the large room set aside for his exclusive enjoyment, and that of his attendant.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC. From the entry abide
  • To continue: the unrated, as distinguished from the unruly, bebusied themselves with furbishing the barren abodes of Durfee, Farnam and Lawrance.1914, H. Roswell Hawley, “Sophomore Year”, in George Washington Patterson, editor, History of the Class of Nineteen-Hundred and Fourteen…. From the entry bebusy
  • There is an abode called mah lok where highly evolved gyanis and yogis go but they are again reborn on the earth planet.2002, Prakashanand Saraswati, The True History and the Religion of India: A Concise Encyclopedia of Authentic Hinduism, Delhi: Motilal…. From the entry gyani
  • It is generally assumed that the sun goddess functions in the Shapash hymn as psychopomp, transporter of the dead to and from their netherly abode.1994, Brian B. Schmidt, Israel's Beneficent Dead: Ancestor Cult and Necromancy in Ancient Israelite Religion and Tradition, page 84. From the entry psychopomp
  • Comedian of love, my wind willed boy has entered the bees' abode, the danger yard of roses his second spring to toedance with the wasps.1956, Harold Witt, “Boy”, in Saturday review, volume 39, page 23. From the entry toedance
  • But with air-breathing lungs and a four-limbed body plan both in place, it wasn't long before these fingersome critters used their adaptations to access drier abodes.2021, Elsa Panciroli, Beasts Before Us, page 56. From the entry fingersome
  • For many Muslim scholars and mystics, however, the Ṣūfism of al-Ḥallāj clearly steps out of the bounds of Islāmic orthodoxy, entering the abode of heterodoxy and even heresy.2012, John Andrew Morrow, Religion and Revolution, page 212. From the entry Islāmic
  • He is the sum total of all vice and that woman is the abode of all virtue; that wicked man is fire incarnate; she is cool like snow.2006, Phyllis Granoff, The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden, →ISBN. From the entry sum total
  • Abydos was the ancestral abode of the adelphogamous Ahmose and its associated Turkish city, and Parisina, the grandmother-in-law of Lucrezia Borgia, was incestuous in her own right.1973, Luciano P. R. Santiago, The Children of Oedipus: Brother-Sister Incest in Psychiatry, Literature, History and Mythology, page 114. From the entry adelphogamous
  • I asked her about my road, And whether I there had far miscome, Miscome unto that abode; And kindly she set me in my way, Ask me not where.1962, William Barnes, Poems. From the entry miscome
  • Certain cults and individuals from the West look towards Tibet as the abode of mysterious Mahatmas and "Masters", and the home of the Great White Brotherhood.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 176. From the entry mahatma
  • He hoped not, for that would mean a night’s sleep curled in the crotch of a tree, and he much preferred the bed of grasses within his own abode.1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 121. From the entry crotch
  • Thenceforward the witch without a name held continuous receptions in the boudoir, and the boudoir gradually grew into an abode of mystery and strangeness, hypnotizing the entire house.1912, Arnold Bennett, “The Widow of the Balcony”, in The Matador of the Five Towns, and Other Stories, London: Methuen, page 169. From the entry incantatory

Meaning of abode

  1. noun Act of waiting; delay.
  2. noun Stay or continuance in a place; sojourn.
  3. noun A residence, dwelling or habitation.

Full definition of abode

Questions about abode in a sentence

How do you use abode in a sentence?
Abode is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They returned to their respective places of abode.”
What is a short sentence with abode?
“of no fixed abode”
What does abode mean?
Abode means act of waiting; delay.

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