How to Use abolish in a Sentence

abolish

verb
  • He is in favor of abolishing the death penalty.
  • League couldn’t even agree to abolish the tush-push and tabled it.
    — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 6 Apr. 2025
  • Every fifty years, all debt was abolished.
    — Eliza Griswold, New Yorker, 22 June 2026
  • For starters, Macron might reverse his move to abolish the wealth tax.
    — Catherine Poisson, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Slavery was abolished a year after his death.
    — Leila Tarakji, The Conversation, 17 June 2026
  • Jews must be abolished by any means necessary.
    — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 26 Jan. 2026
  • There have been more than 700 attempts to amend or abolish it.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2020
  • And their intention had not been abolished.
    — CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • Trump tried to abolish the program in his first term as president and vows to do so again.
    — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024
  • The soon-to-retire justice lost his fight to abolish the death penalty.
    — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 30 Jan. 2022
  • Seven years later, the monarchy was abolished and the king was dead.
    — Catherine Nicholson, New York Times, 10 Sep. 2025
  • And at least three states have abolished deadlines for people who were abused as children to sue.
    — Maryclaire Dale, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2023
  • Alan Neuschatz counts himself among the abolish-the-penny crowd.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 12 Aug. 2020
  • Now abolish property taxes for us that live here.
    — Khaleda Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Perhaps a crisis will occur, giving us a chance to pack the court, or abolish it.
    — Astra Taylor, The New Republic, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Five states will choose whether to abolish slavery on Election Day.
    — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 8 Nov. 2022
  • After all, Haiti was the first country the world to abolish slavery.
    — Patrick D Bellegarde-Smith, The Conversation, 12 July 2021
  • Some have called for abolishing ICE.
    — Nidia Cavazos, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
  • That uneven use of the death penalty is one of the reasons advocates want to abolish it.
    — Kevin Grasha, Cincinnati Enquirer, 21 Oct. 2025
  • And the town, shocked into action, abolished its entire police force.
    — Rob Picheta, CNN Money, 7 Feb. 2026
  • Virginia has become the 23rd state to abolish the death penalty.
    — Fox News, 24 Mar. 2021
  • Their programs had not been completely abolished.
    — CBS News, 1 Mar. 2026
  • How many of her constituents want to abolish the police and eliminate the police?
    — Eric Shawn, Fox News, 24 Jan. 2022
  • But how does that -- how does abolishing prisons or having open borders fit into that?
    — ABC News, 28 June 2026
  • Drew must fight to abolish the tyranny of the Lionlords and reclaim the throne.
    — Alex Ritman, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 June 2022
  • Well, some Democrats have been calling for years to abolish ICE.
    — NBC news, 11 Jan. 2026
  • The in-season tournament is here and isn’t going to be abolished anytime soon.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Even after slavery was abolished, some families who sought to find their kin never did.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2025
  • For the first time, more people now support abolishing the agency than oppose it.
    — Philip Wang, Time, 14 Jan. 2026
  • This year, Virginia became the first state in the South to abolish the death penalty.
    — NBC News, 16 Dec. 2021

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