Example sentences for: abounds

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

  • Few Arab buildings remain, having been razed during the Reconquest, but the old quarter (Centre Historic on direction signs) still abounds with buildings of historic interest, preserved when Palma fell into decline in the 16th and 17th centuries.

  • Precedent for dimerization of limited domains of ion channels abounds.

  • Today it's the Wall Street Journal 's turn to report on a nonpressing economic problem: "Confusion abounds," says the paper's "Tax Report," "as many financial advisers apparently aren't aware that the new tax law killed an excise tax that forced people with $1 million or more in retirement savings to carefully time withdrawals."

  • South Park abounds in screamingly campy parodies, from the opening ensemble to Terrance and Phillip's peppy rap duet "Shut Your Fucking Face, Uncle-Fucker" to the principal's exhortation to substitute "bum," "poo," and the phlegmatic "M'kay" for, respectively, "ass," "shit," and "fuck" while leading a Busby Berkeley-ish dance line.

  • I am willing to take Bryson's word for many of the bits of information with which this book abounds, to wit, “Among the Xoxa tribe of South Africa the most provocative remark is hlebeshako -- `your mother's ears,' ” the wisdom that “Some cultures don't swear at all,” and the revelation that in Finland, “When you stub your toe getting up to answer the wrong number at 2.00 a.m.,” you mutter (shout?)


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