How to Use abhorrent in a Sentence

abhorrent

adjective
  • Even though his ideas were abhorrent to me.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Even though his ideas were abhorrent to me.
    — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • What an abhorrent signing this has turned out to be.
    — Tim Spiers, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Our speed has gone from decent to just abhorrent, but that's okay.
    — Noel Brennan, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2025
  • Of course, the health claims are false, not to mention abhorrent.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Our hearts go out to all of those affected by this abhorrent act.
    — Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 30 Apr. 2025
  • To pay more than a shirt was worth for status was abhorrent, alien to my parents.
    — Melissa Febos, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
  • But the next piece could be something very shocking and abhorrent.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 5 July 2019
  • This abhorrent practice must end.
    — Haley Ott, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
  • To learn that zoos will be trafficking the sloths to other zoos and be used in breeding is abhorrent.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2026
  • There can be no place for such abhorrent behaviour and our thoughts are with all those affected.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 31 July 2024
  • That means any ideology has a right to a display, even an abhorrent one.
    — Matthew Malec, National Review, 27 Dec. 2023
  • There are some human value structures in which this whole approach is abhorrent.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 19 June 2024
  • To the rest of the world — and to critics inside the US -- his rhetoric is abhorrent.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 7 Jan. 2020
  • This wasn’t a car accident or risky behavior or karma for any of the abhorrent things teen boys do.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 16 May 2022
  • Rodeos are the most vile and abhorrent form of animal cruelty.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 4 Oct. 2024
  • But no matter how abhorrent these allegations are, they cannot be dealt with without due process.
    — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2021
  • But to have the politicians in our society start messing around with our freedoms is abhorrent.
    — Dp Opinion, The Denver Post, 4 June 2019
  • My complete comments make clear these abhorrent views are not my own, nor were they directed at any student or group.
    — Jeana Fermi, ABC News, 26 Feb. 2026
  • But its placement in the series finale only makes the moment that much more abhorrent.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Any deaths at all are naturally abhorrent, but the emphasis at least is that there will be many fewer by far.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • No tossing and turning for the man who has played one of the most abhorrent characters onscreen this season.
    — New York Times, 8 Feb. 2022
  • What’s lost in the continuing Olympic sport of face-saving, though, is the most abhorrent part.
    — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Feb. 2022
  • United fans are not the only set of supporters to have voiced concerns over such abhorrent pricing.
    — SI.com, 20 Dec. 2017
  • The idea of being that vulnerable with her after what happened is abhorrent to me.
    — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 1 Mar. 2024
  • What counts as so morally abhorrent that an association should be erased — and who gets to decide?
    — Elizabeth A. Harris, New York Times, 18 July 2019
  • What our country is doing is abhorrent and untenable.
    — Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 8 Jan. 2026
  • His behavior is abhorrent — and fans want nothing more than for Jessica to stay away from him.
    — Christopher Rosa, Glamour, 20 July 2017
  • For all actors, finding common ground with their characters, no matter how abhorrent, is part of the job.
    — Lauren Huff, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2022
  • The West’s did something abhorrent to Swift, a public beating.
    — Richard S. He, Billboard, 12 Mar. 2018

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