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How to use abomination in a sentence

22 example sentences · noun

Abomination means an abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit. Example: “Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away.”

Examples of abomination by meaning

nounAn abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.

  • Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 160

nounThat which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object that excites disgust and hatred (often with religious undertones).

  • Appalled by a child she found hideous, Philyra begged the gods to free her from having to rear such an abomination.2012, Kathleen Jenks, “Cronus”, in Brian Kinsey, editor, Gods and Goddesses of Greece and Rome, →ISBN, page 61
  • Elon Musk, the billionaire tech entrepreneur, has opened a new rift with Donald Trump by denouncing the US president’s tax and spending bill as a “disgusting abomination”.2025 June 3, David Smith, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk calls Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ tax bill a ‘disgusting abomination’”, in The...

More sentences with abomination

  • From a public health standpoint, the draft decision leaked on Monday is an abomination.2022 May 10, Alex Shephard, “With Roe, the GOP Is the Dog that Caught the Car”, in The New Republic, archived from the original on 13 Jul…. From the entry dog that caught the car
  • Now Kirabo understood why the Ganda considered the selling of family land an abomination.2020, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, The First Woman, Oneworld Publications, page 394. From the entry Ganda
  • Puns so eye-rollingly BAD, they're an abomination to the vampire's refined senses.2013, Rita Harris, Heather Harwood, Your Guide to Spotting and Outing Bloodsuckers at Work, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry vampireyness
  • Now who's so big and tough?" "Dude, don't taunt the god-killing abomination."2006, Rich Burlew, The Order of the Stick: No Cure for the Paladin Blues, page 275. From the entry deicidal
  • He was only Craster's whelp, an abomination born of incest, not the son of the King-beyond-the-Wall.2005, George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire, page 225. From the entry incest
  • For the Lord abhorreth all these things, and for these abominations he will destroy them."1919, W[illiam] R[ichard] Harris, “Demoniacal Possession”, in Essays in Occultism, Spiritism, and Demonology, St. Louis, Mo.; London…. From the entry pythonic
  • All of them are תובעות abhorrences or abominations, although “adultery and bestiality” are branded as “unclean” (אמט) activities.2022, Sabine Dievenkorn, Shaul Levin, [Re]Gained in Translation I: Bibles, Theologies, and the Politics of Empowerment, page 276. From the entry abhorrence
  • This abomination, which stands for "Daddy Dom Little Girl" is essentially pedophilia-lite and is super uncomfortable, abusive, and wildly problematic.2018 May 7, Rebecca Goldstein, “DDLG Ruins the Party Again”, in Binghamton Review, Binghamton Review, page 13. From the entry kinkshame
  • What sort of abominations are going to become unoptional?2012 January 12, Clifford Geertz, Available Light: Anthropological Reflections on Philosophical Topics, Princeton University Press, →ISBN…. From the entry unoptional
  • In the face of "words so plainly put together," the fact that slavery was neither sin nor abomination was "inconcussible'."1999, Felicity Allen, Jefferson Davis, Unconquerable Heart, page 248. From the entry inconcussible
  • Hence the fugg of universities and of academic abominations.1935, Thomas Stearns Eliot, The Criterion, page 44. From the entry fugg
  • In the cities, it is a visual abomination and is very harmful to the environment because the material used, coroplast, is not recyclable.2008, Official Report, House of Commons Debates, volume 142, numbers 113-117. From the entry coroplast
  • The cracked flagstone path leads to the only house in sight, a large, ramshackle tarpaper-shingled abomination straight out of an Appalachian blightscape.2008, Robert N. Chan, Zahirah Abdulah, Bad Memory, page 57. From the entry blightscape
  • “Blind obedience to a government without forethought or, in your case, even hindthought is an abomination to free thought,” said Ethan, smiling.2007, Raymond Rodrigues, Memoir of a Green Mountain Boy, →ISBN. From the entry hindthought
  • Abominations like BUDDY BETTER GET ON DOWN THE LINE, a re-write of the Pete Seeger: Pete Steele: Dave Macon versions, also don't help the group.[1960], Bob Dahle, “STRING ALONG WITH THE KINGSTON TRIO (Capitol 1407)”, in Paul Nelson, Jon Pankake, editors, The Little Sandy Review…. From the entry ethnicness
  • Charlotte thought the spelling of “Treatzz” was an abomination, but they made good ice cream, which you could get sandwiched between cookies or in a bubble waffle.2023, Jackie Lau, Cider Bar Sisters: The Complete Series, [self-published], →ISBN, page 329. From the entry bubble waffle
  • Robosexuality is an abomination!” “This guy.” “The good book sayeth a robot shall not lie down with a human, nor do it standing up, nor at any angle in between.”2010 July 8, Michael Rowe, “Proposition Infinity” (7:22 from the start), in Futurama, season 6, episode 4, spoken by Reverend Lionel…. From the entry robosexuality
  • And to Lut, too, We gave Judgment and Knowledge, and We saved him from the town which practised abominations: truly they were a people given to Evil, a rebellious people.1934, Abdullah Yusuf Ali, transl., The Holy Qur'an, 21:74. From the entry LUT
  • Close by the door stood the mixen, a collection of every abomination streams from which, in rainy weather, fertilized the lower meadows, generally the lord's pasture, and polluted the stream.1933, David Marshall Brooks, The Necessity of Atheism (Brooks)/Chapter XVI, Chapter XVI. From the entry mixen

Meaning of abomination

  1. noun An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.
  2. noun The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred.
  3. noun A state that excites detestation or abhorrence; pollution.

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Questions about abomination in a sentence

How do you use abomination in a sentence?
Abomination is used as a noun. For example: “Religious sodomy was practised by male prostitutes in the Hebrew temple groves, which was one of the abominations of Israel that Josiah cleared away.”
What is a short sentence with abomination?
“Hence the fugg of universities and of academic abominations.”
What does abomination mean?
Abomination means an abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.

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