ABATEMENT in a Sentence

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34 example sentences for ABATEMENT, such as:

1. When the snow storm abated a moment we looked again.
2. Still, there was no abatement in the storm, but it blew harder.
3. The next morning produced no abatement in these happy symptoms.
4. Rather than leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate.
5. But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he assigns it.

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 Meanings and Examples of ABATEMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
abatement
 n.  the act of abating
 n.  an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
Classic Sentence: (30 in 3 pages)
1  The next morning produced no abatement in these happy symptoms.
Sense and Sensibility By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 46
2  Still, there was no abatement in the storm, but it blew harder.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 55. TEMPEST
3  The morrow produced no abatement of Mrs. Bennet's ill-humour or ill health.
Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
4  But much abatement is necessary with respect to the incredible bulk he assigns it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 59. Squid.
5  When a thing suited him he paid the price demanded, without thinking to ask for any abatement.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 38 HOW, WITHOUT INCOMMDING HIMSELF, ATHOS PROCURES HIS EQUIPMENT
6  The smoke-serpents were indifferent who was lost or found, who turned out bad or good; the melancholy mad elephants, like the Hard Fact men, abated nothing of their set routine, whatever happened.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
7  The path from the wood leads to a morass, and from thence to a ford, which, as the rains have abated, may now be passable.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  The thunder had ceased outside, but the rain which had abated, suddenly came striking down, with a last blench of lightning and mutter of departing storm.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 15
9  He walked up one street, and down another, until exercise had abated the first passion of his grief; and then the revulsion of feeling made him thirsty.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
10  But the fagged whale abated his speed, and blindly altering his course, went round the stern of the ship towing the two boats after him, so that they performed a complete circuit.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
11  The instant the shock of this sudden misfortune had abated, Duncan began to make his observations on the appearance and proceedings of their captors.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
12  The latter was not yet ended, when the sensation among the men had entirely abated.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 24
13  By degrees the wind abated, vast gray clouds rolled towards the west, and the blue firmament appeared studded with bright stars.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21. The Island of Tiboulen.
14  The next morning she found her grandmother in bed; the fever had not abated, on the contrary her eyes glistened and she appeared to be suffering from violent nervous irritability.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 72. Madame de Saint-Meran.
15  When the snow storm abated a moment we looked again.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
Example Sentence:
1  The storms that once characterized their relationship seem to have abated, perhaps leading to an unusually serene last summit in Paris.
2  After what seemed an eternity, the wind might veer to the east and the storm abated.
3  Rather than leaving immediately, they waited for the storm to abate.
4  The outbreak shows no sign of abating, and governments and international organizations were ‘‘far from winning this battle."