Example sentences for: abel

How can you use “abel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • He also acted in films; his performances are few but indelible, from his matinee-idol turn as the empathetic monk in Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) to his part as Marat in Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927), in which, at one point, he breaks off a discussion by getting down on all fours and barking like a dog.

  • It quoted Spanish Foreign Minister Abel Matutes as saying this could bring "a complete solution" to the row generated by Spain's request for Pinochet to be extradited from Britain for murder, torture, and other human rights violations.

  • Like Dickens' Abel Magwitch, Jack Maggs has been exiled to the Australian backwaters.

  • Or maybe old possibilities: The language of movies hasn't seemed this unfettered since the pre-sound days of Sergei Eisenstein and Abel Gance.

  • So does the former name for the colony, Van Diemen's Land (so named by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman), or its facetious variant, Vandemonia (former Tasmanian convicts being known on the mainland as Vandemonians).


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