Example sentences for: abide

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

  • If you’d like to stay overnight in this spectacular (and deathly peaceful) area, there is a hostal, Hospedería de la Caridad, behind the church, where foreigners who abide by the strict rules can stay for a mere five pesos a night (see page 133).

  • One difference: Schröder hates emotional displays, claiming he "can't abide pathos."

  • No word if New Ben has to abide by the prenuptial agreement of Old Ben.

  • Just as nature is reputed to abhor a vacuum, some people can't abide asymmetry.

  • Ready, Willing & Able, which runs private homeless shelters, requires participants to submit to frequent drug tests, abide by a range of rules inside the shelter, and make modest payments toward their own room and board.


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