Example sentences for: abject

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

  • Fifteen hundred abject failures would mean an error rate of .00075 percent.

  • The episode itself sounds iffy--Fish launches a wrongful-termination suit on behalf of a major client who's been fired for claiming to have seen a unicorn--but there's a kind of perverse thrill in seeing what abject humiliation will befall the show's emaciated heroine each week.

  • Soutine trained first with artists in Minsk and Vilna, then made the journey to Paris, where he studied briefly in a formal art academy while living in the most abject poverty.

  • Skeat's reply was suitably abject at the outset, but, as might be expected, notwithstanding a direct apology, he could not resist commenting on the entirely irrelevant matter of the origin of wayz-goose while attempting to turn the tables on his critic by painting himself as the put-upon, absentminded professor, struggling in his tiny cell against overwhelming numbers of books and the obligations that attend them:

  • He felt himself simultaneously to be the epicenter of the universe--"I am the left foot of God on earth"--and an abject, persecuted petitioner.


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