How to Use abet in a Sentence

abet

verb
  • Did he abet the commission of a crime?
  • She abetted the thief in his getaway.
  • Their actions were shown to abet terrorism.
  • But it has been abetted, in the past few years, by a few factors.
    — Jonah Weiner, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Whisky abets the smokiness in the slightly sweet sesame sauce.
    — Naomi Kooker, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • If the car is registered to you, you can be charged with aiding and abetting.
    — Kathleen Purvis and Myah Ward, charlotteobserver, 29 June 2018
  • Some women paid a high price, landing in prison for abetting his life as a fugitive.
    — Gaia Pianigiani, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Lenders are wary both of credit risk and of abetting crime if exchanges don’t police users.
    — The Economist, 26 Apr. 2018
  • Great, yet another way to abet that pesky online shopping habit.
    — Aj Willingham, CNN, 2 Dec. 2020
  • The gods, of course, are abetting the worst impulses of these mortals.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2024
  • It’s aided and abetted by the drafting of guys like Joe Mixon.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Results like these, and the reforms that abetted them, are welcome and overdue.
    — Dana Stevens, The Atlantic, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Too often, Assange acts as if there are no such tensions, and Poitras abets him in this.
    — Fred Kaplan, Slate Magazine, 3 May 2017
  • Numerous studies have detailed the ways in which climate change may aid and abet the spread of these pathogens as the world warms.
    — Henry Skinner, STAT, 9 Feb. 2023
  • Salman was found not guilty last week of aiding and abetting her husband and of obstruction of justice.
    — Gal Tziperman Lotan, OrlandoSentinel.com, 5 Apr. 2018
  • In the background remains a lot of criticism about aiding and abetting fake news.
    — The Hive, 17 Feb. 2017
  • The tenants are also suing the city of Chicago for abetting this process.
    — Maya Dukmasova, Chicago Reader, 21 Feb. 2018
  • The scale of the effort then abets itself, setting up a destructive feedback loop.
    — Wade Graham, Smithsonian, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Salman has pleaded not guilty to charges of aiding and abetting, and obstruction of justice.
    — Mike Schneider, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2017
  • Monroy is charged in Davis’ slaying and with aiding and abetting her husband.
    — Sam Stanton, sacbee, 5 Feb. 2018
  • If convicted of abetting a public servant, Ong could be jailed for up to two years, fined, or both.
    — Tianwei Zhang, WWD, 4 Oct. 2024
  • While pretending to abet the hearings, Daugherty fought them tooth and nail.
    — Kevin Baker, The New Republic, 17 May 2018
  • Facebook was in the midst of a crackdown on false or misleading material that could abet the spread of the virus.
    — Peter Jamison, Washington Post, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Coopting the appeal of sweatsuit comfort, this set adds enough polish to aid and abet your return to in-person plans.
    — Katharine K. Zarrella, WSJ, 24 Apr. 2021
  • Amid an air of myth that abets a plot twist, the play reflects on prejudice and cruelty in a way that resonates for this country.
    — Celia Wren, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
  • But the charges laid in court Wednesday were two counts of war crime murder and three counts of aiding or abetting a war crime murder.
    — ABC News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • Melvin pleaded guilty to two counts of aiding and abetting the distribution of fentanyl.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2026
  • The jury convicted Tapp of aiding and abetting the rape and murder.
    — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 29 Apr. 2017
  • According to the law, a traitor is a person who has aided and abetted a foreign entity in time of war, right?
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2019
  • There’s a fair bit of mirth in all this, and in Glanz’s brittle, snippy dialogue, which is abetted by the casting.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 4 June 2026

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