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How to use the word abominable in a Sentence?

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These people are everything that is abominable in politics.

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The fact that there are radicals for whom the Israeli flag represents hatred and racism is abominable and unforgivable.

Yair Lapid

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Any jet that violates our airspace will be treated as a hostile target that must be shot down and prevented from achieving its goals, the Syrian military statement said. It was not immediately clear whether the statement referred to friendly Russian jets in addition to Turkish aircraft. Migrants arrive at the village of Skala Sikaminias, on the Greek island of Lesbos, after crossing on a dinghy the Aegean sea from Turkey, Sunday, March 1, 2020. ( AP Photo/Michael Varaklas) The statement came shortly after the Syrian army shot down a Turkish drone over the town of Saraqeb in Syrias Idlib, according to military-run media. Turkish Defense Minsiter Hulusi Akar, speaking from military headquarters near the Syrian border, said Turkey aimed to confront Syrian government forces rather than Russian troops. Hulusi Akar called on Moscow to persuade Syrian President Bashar Assad to withdraw to 2018 cease-fire lines on the edges of Idlib. Referring to losses inflicted on Syria, Hulusi Akar said Turkey had neutralized more than 2,200 Syrian troops, 103 tanks and eight helicopters. The Spring Shield operation, which was launched following the abominable attack in Idlib on Feb. 27, continues successfully.

Hulusi Akar

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Its not going to be all superheroes all the time. Thats not necessarily going to be everyones cup of tea, when we have films like Abominable, Yesterday, Good Boys, Good Boys, were bringing a lot of different people into the theaters and thats good for everyone. Thats good for the entire industry.

Jim Orr

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There will be those who say, 'No, no, no, this isn't terrorism, it's just one person,' well, it needs to be said that the man who carried out this despicable, abominable and appalling act is part of a network, but he also uploaded a manifesto to the network.

Marcelo Ebrard

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Federal Chancellor condemns the abominable act, which once again shows how unscrupulous and inhumane these terrorists are. We all must stand together and fight against them.

Steffen Seibert

Found on CNN
7 years ago

What he did is domestic terrorism, and what he did is absolutely abominable, especially to us in the pro-life movement, because there's nothing about any of us that would condone or in any way look the other way on something like this.

Mike Huckabee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It stood right up and towered over us, because we were in kind of a hole from the digging, it looked like the abominable snowman because its fur was so packed with snow and it looked at us, shook the snow off it, and off it went.

Marty Mobley

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth -- either epileptic or dead.

Jean Baudrillard

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.

André Gide

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable.

Tom Margerison, "A Random Walk in Science" compiled by R. L. Weber, edited by E. Mendoza

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Think as I think said the man, or you are abominable. You are a toad. And after I had thought on it, I said I will then, be a toad.

Stephen Crane

added by anonymous
13 years ago

We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming proud, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God call abominable.

Robert Cecil

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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