Example sentences for: abstraction

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

  • Just as the art world is revving up for the Jackson Pollock extravaganza at the Museum of Modern Art in November, it's good to be reminded just how far along the line of abstraction and monumentality Monet had traveled by the end of his long life.

  • CompositeSequences are the highest level of abstraction, allowing multiple Reporters or multiple CompositeSequences to be combined so that data can be mapped to DNA sequences that are longer than the lengths of individual Reporters.

  • The story that MoMA's show tells about Léger--his heroic struggle with Cézanne, his escape into abstraction, his flirtation with competing schools of Modernism, his late monumentality--is the same story that MoMA's permanent collection tells, with Picasso as the hero.

  • By comparison, Will, the hero of About a Boy , is an abstraction, the sort of handsome cipher you see in magazine ads for khakis.

  • And the New York School of abstraction, which became predominant after the war, was near its apex, not its end, by the arbitrary cutoff date of 1950.


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