How to Use abominable in a Sentence

abominable

adjective
  • It was an abominable crime.
  • With a better hire five years ago, KU would be closer to bad than abominable.
    — Sam Mellinger, kansascity, 12 Sep. 2017
  • The clear attempt to further divide our country was abominable.
    — Vivian Jones, The Tennessean, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Any deal that was achievable would have been an immoral maintenance of an abominable status quo.
    — Daniel Politi, Slate Magazine, 3 May 2017
  • But white Americans are still being killed by police at an abominable rate.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 9 June 2020
  • The fact that these horrific shootings continue to take place is abominable.
    — CBS News, 3 July 2023
  • The way the United States has treated Iran over the past three years is an abominable war crime.
    — Ryan Cooper, TheWeek, 27 Mar. 2020
  • In an abominable twist, the Yeti, who seemed in it to win it, was eliminated in the semi-finals.
    — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 13 Aug. 2021
  • Who would ever buy that abominable lightning-bolt conference table?
    — Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 4 Dec. 2025
  • The idea of precious dollars going to fund athletics is abominable, critics say.
    — Daniel Cancel, Bloomberg.com, 1 Sep. 2017
  • The philosopher’s anti-Semitism, however abominable, shouldn’t stand in the way.
    — Christian Madsbjerg, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2015
  • And yet, puddles of the abominable liquid continued to appear in the centre of the room, day after day!
    — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
  • An ethical case can be made for dropping an abominable turd in of their Type-A track, just for humbling.
    — Sundog, Outside Online, 3 Apr. 2021
  • What was once so abominable flowing from one direction was now justified in flowing from the other.
    — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 June 2022
  • Israel conducted a daring rescue of four hostages who had been held for eight months in abominable conditions.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 19 June 2024
  • Despite the movie’s title, Everest is anything but abominable.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 25 Sep. 2019
  • Of course, my mom didn’t know her bookish but fast-talking elder son was in some abominable alleyway trying to score perico.
    — Barry Michael Cooper, New York Times, 12 Sep. 2017
  • This is Ohio State’s rightful punishment for these abominable uniforms.
    — Michelle R. Martinelli, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2017
  • And a tragic comment on the four hundredth anniversary of the most abominable practice in our democracy.
    — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 31 July 2019
  • What makes the Emily in Paris example so abominable is the show soon switches to the better approach.
    — Zak Jason, Wired, 16 Feb. 2021
  • Much of America's Black history has been covered up to make slavery seem less abominable.
    — Dahleen Glanton, Star Tribune, 18 June 2021
  • What's particularly abominable is that (the man) also concealed his son's return with him from Wuhan.
    — James Griffiths, CNN, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The acting in Forbidden West ranges from impressive to abominable.
    — Washington Post, 19 Feb. 2022
  • The Bucks were abominable on defense, and Griffin reportedly lost his locker room.
    — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 23 Jan. 2024
  • That abominable behavior is the antithesis of what coaching young men is all about, and giving this man a platform to mold young minds is a shocking decision.
    — Daniel Rapaport, SI.com, 3 Aug. 2017
  • Instead, those men wrote the abominable document that’s still the foundation of Alabama law today.
    — Kyle Whitmire, al, 4 Dec. 2019
  • His was an age in which the prospect of Earth bereft of human occupancy was too abominable, too sacrilegious, to contemplate.
    — Rebecca Giggs, The New York Review of Books, 30 Nov. 2023
  • Fury is 7-0 with 4 KOs, but it must be noted that Fury has faced abominable opposition.
    — Anthony Stitt, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2021
  • By uncovering the origins of flowers, Friis has helped to solve the abominable mystery and reveal the dawning of the modern world.
    — Ben Crair, The New Yorker, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The Raiders have had three regimes pay really good money for three consecutive veteran quarterbacks who have been abominable.
    — Vic Tafur, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025

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