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How to use abortion in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun

Abortion means a spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage. Example: “Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.”

Examples of abortion by meaning

nounAn induced abortion.

  • Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.
  • It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months.1997, George Carlin, Brain Droppings, New York: Hyperion Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 93
  • “They were told by the factory, ‘Have an abortion or be fired’,” she said.2014 January 20, Didi Kirsten Tatlow, “‘She. Herself. Naked.': The Art of He Chengyao”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

nounAn aborted foetus; an abortus.

  • The Fascist poem, one may fear, will be a horrid little abortion such as one sees in a glass jar in the museum of some county town.1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

nounA misshapen person or thing; a monstrosity.

  • Dickey on his own manages to turn a simple bo diddley 1-2-3-4 into an absolute abortion of a song.2000, Jules, “please dont buy beacon cd”, in alt.fan.allman-brothers (Usenet)
  • an absolute abortion of a book2003, David Kerekes, Headpress 24: Powered by Love, page 133

More sentences with abortion

  • If you insist on posting your baby photos to that abortion newsgroup, get ready for some flamage.From the entry flamage
  • For years, pro-life groups have continued to lobby hard for restrictions on abortion.From the entry lobby
  • A newsgroup about abortion is far more trollable than one about linguistics.From the entry trollable
  • It is his persuasion that abortion should never be condoned.From the entry persuasion
  • Abortion was becoming the season's big political battleground.From the entry battleground
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:abortions.From the entry abortions
  • He was on record as opposing abortion.From the entry on record
  • Wade and ushered in a wave of draconian abortion laws in mostly red states across the country.2026 March 12, Kimberly Atkins Stohr, “One thing voters agree on: They don’t like the Supreme Court”, in The Boston Globe, retrieved 22…. From the entry shadow docket
  • Post-liberals share some longstanding Catholic conservative views, such as opposition to abortion and LGBTQ+ rights.2025 April 19, “JD Vance had ‘exchange of opinions’ with senior cardinal, Vatican says”, in The Guardian, sourced from Associated Press…. From the entry common good
  • Dobbs demolished a federal right to abortion, and its legality currently rests with each state.2023 July 6, Sarah Boden, “A year after victory in Dobbs decision, anti-abortion activists still in fight mode”, in NPR, archived from the…. From the entry Dobbs
  • From Lisa Lampanelli: "What do you call a black woman who's had seven abortions?2020, Deborah Plummer, Some of My Friends Are…:, page 128. From the entry crime fighter
  • Abortion tours have already begun, most often to the former Soviet republics.2018, Tanya Renne, Ana's Land: Sisterhood In Eastern Europe, Routledge, →ISBN, page 32. From the entry abortion tour
  • This difficult situation has led some in the “pro-life” movement to call abortion the “unchoice.”2015, Charles C. Camosy, Beyond the Abortion Wars: A Way Forward for a New Generation. From the entry unchoice
  • If abortion occurs even later, as in the cultivar 'Chaouch,' normal-size fruit develop containing hard empty seeds.2008, Ronald S. Jackson, Wine science: principles and applications, 3rd edition, Food science and technology international series…. From the entry Chaouch
  • Benedict stressed demographics as he repeated, in a strong multifront attack, the Vatican’s long-held opposition to abortion.2007 September 8, Ian Fisher, “Pope Vigorously Defends Catholicism in Austria and Raises Concerns on Europe’s Future”, in New York Times. From the entry multifront
  • The most powerful and least divisive way to decrease abortion is to reduce unintended pregnancy.2006 May, Ceci Connolly, quoting Sarah Brown, “Unintended Pregnancy Linked to State Funding Cuts”, in The Washington Post, archived from…. From the entry unintended
  • Thomason floated Billy Graham's name, but Hillary worried that he might get off the reservation on abortion.1999, Martin Plissner, The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections. From the entry off the reservation
  • Roe admitted that he may have misinjected drugs during the abortion.1996, Mark Crutcher, Lime 5: Exploited by Choice, page 71. From the entry misinject
  • Vaid blasted the Bush administration for gagging doctors from discussing abortion.1992 May 8, John Zeh, Gay Community News, page 3. From the entry gag
  • At a time of increased abortion restrictions, many liberals find them creepy—busybodies at best and eugenicists at worst.2025 February 23, Marc Novicoff, “The Loneliness of the Conservative Pronatalist”, in The Atlantic. From the entry eugenicist
  • I'm sure even Donald Trump, who was once pro-choice but now panders to evangelicals, has qualms about criminalizing abortion.2023 December 16, Maureen Dowd, “Supreme Contempt for Women”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry supermobilized
  • I mean, Magadonians (are) the left at this point with Trump’s positions on like transgenderism, abortion,” Pushaw said.2023 September 30, A.G. Gancarski, “Christina Pushaw says Donald Trump ‘going back to his roots as a Democrat’”, in Florida Politics, St.…. From the entry Magadonian
  • Ending legal abortion appeared within their reach.2019 December 1, Elizabeth Dias, Lisa Lerer, The New York Times. From the entry serendipitously
  • The abortion fight we are gearing up for departs from the realm of uneasy compromise and reëngages the clash of absolutes.2019 June 5, Jeannie Suk Gersen, “How Fetal Personhood Emerged as the Next Stage of the Abortion Wars”, in The New Yorker, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry reëngage
  • In regard to abortion we are now lawless.2012, Read I. Myers, The Great Canadian Oligarchy: Flaws in Our Freedoms. From the entry unlaw
  • And in an unclose vote, not enough pro-life delegates cast their ballot to put the abortion issue before the convention.2010, Ben J. Wattenberg, Values Matter Most, page 50. From the entry unclose
  • Welcome to this celebration of legal abortion.1988 February 7, Stephanie Poggi, “What's Choice Got To Do With It?”, in Gay Community News, volume 15, number 29, page 5. From the entry nirvana
  • If the pregnancy is too advanced for the D & C or salting out procedures, a hysterotomy abortion may be performed.1984, John Jefferson Davis, Abortion and the Christian: what every believer should know, page 29. From the entry salt out
  • The results of self-induced and backstreet abortions come to our hospitals for the damage to be put right.1965 June 15, Renée Short, Hansard. From the entry backstreet
  • Though favored to win, he was defeated following late attacks from the DFL establishment, including a rumor campaign stating he opposed abortion (he does not).2025 January 9, Adam Platt, “In Conversation with Will Stancil”, in Mpls.St.Paul, archived from the original on 11 Jan 2025. From the entry DFL
  • “Within Vox, you have sectors that came from the fascist Falange party and ultra-Catholic sectors that are pro-life and absolutely against abortion and gay marriage.”2023 June 11, Sam Jones, “From ‘cranks’ to contenders: how Spain’s far-right Vox party is rising toward power”, in The Observer, →ISSN. From the entry ultranationalist
  • This has created a patchwork of laws that have made legislation designed to stop abortions less effective in some parts of the country.2023 July 6, Sarah Boden, “A year after victory in Dobbs decision, anti-abortion activists still in fight mode”, in NPR, archived from the…. From the entry Dobbs
  • Cpac’s chairman, Matt Schlapp, even suggested outlawing abortion as a solution: “If you’re worried about this ‘replacement’, why don’t we start there?2022 June 8, Steve Rose, “A deadly ideology: how the ‘great replacement theory’ went mainstream”, in The Guardian, archived from the…. From the entry Budapest
  • According to her projections, about 42 percent of U.S. women of reproductive age will experience a change in distance to the closest abortion clinic.2022 December 16, Melissa Jeltsen, “We Are Not Prepared for the Coming Surge of Babies”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 05…. From the entry reproductive

Meaning of abortion

  1. noun A spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage.
  2. noun An induced abortion.
  3. noun An aborted foetus; an abortus.

Full definition of abortion

Questions about abortion in a sentence

How do you use abortion in a sentence?
Abortion is used as a noun. For example: “Mary decided to have an abortion because she was too young to raise a baby.”
What is a short sentence with abortion?
“an absolute abortion of a book”
What does abortion mean?
Abortion means a spontaneous abortion; a miscarriage.

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