How to Use abridge in a Sentence

abridge

verb
  • When our rights were being abridged?
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 19 Oct. 2025
  • When our rights were being abridged?
    — Marlene Lenthang, NBC news, 7 July 2023
  • Many have abridged it and updated it and riffed on it over the decades.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Gabriel Gorodetsky’s edition — abridged and unabridged — is a work for the ages.
    — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Granted, his short speech inevitably abridged the long-form document.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 12 Dec. 2017
  • Was this omission just a classic example of a movie needing to abridge itself?
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2024
  • Their civil rights are being abridged, but the tensions are so high people aren’t finding a lot of support.
    — Teresa Watanabestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 22 July 2019
  • Ghost came out onstage basically a second later, and let the crowd know that the set was going to be abridged.
    — Vulture, 3 Apr. 2023
  • No prior power can be twisted to abridge or infringe on our Civil Rights.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022
  • This text reflects that version, with the addition of some material that was abridged for print. Rights & Permissions Daniel Shailer is a climate reporter based in Pittsburgh.
    — Daniel Shailer, Scientific American, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Our freedoms are often abridged in the name of national security.
    — ABC News, 24 Apr. 2024
  • Since Gurira hadn’t been a main cast member since the previous season, her section of the finale is the most abridged.
    — Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2024
  • There may be cases of juror bias so extreme that, almost by definition, the jury trial right has been abridged.
    — Garrett Epps, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2016
  • The First Amendment only protects you from having the government abridge your speech.
    — Karen Huppertz, ajc, 18 Mar. 2016
  • The First Amendment prevents the government from making laws that abridge freedom of speech.
    — Jason Zenor, The Conversation, 18 Feb. 2026
  • What counts as a good reason to abridge a civil right to intimate privacy would be difficult to satisfy.
    — WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
  • When bullies try to stop controversial thoughts from being uttered in a public forum to those willing to hear them, both free speech and free thought are abridged.
    — Mercury News Editorial Board, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2017
  • And a waiting period of a few days won't abridge anyone's Second Amendment rights, either.
    — Michael K. McIntyre, cleveland.com, 14 May 2017
  • The First Amendment flatly prohibits the government from abridging the freedom of speech.
    — Susan Shelley, Orange County Register, 18 June 2024
  • Gun-rights supporters say self-defense is a fundamental right that is improperly abridged by a duty to retreat in the face of danger.
    — Joe Palazzolo, WSJ, 26 Nov. 2016
  • No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
    — Randy Barnett, Washington Post, 4 July 2017
  • For example, the Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, and the feds should certainly shoot down any state law that abridges that right.
    — WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
  • To punish the exercise of this right to discuss public affairs or to penalize it through libel judgments is to abridge or shut off discussion of the very kind most needed.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2016
  • Whether the principles of the Declaration, abridged or unabridged, endure is a question that only the course of human events will determine.
    — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • Mendez bypassed the plaintiffs’ contention that the measure unconstitutionally abridged free speech rights.
    — Dan Walters, Mercury News, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Ninth Circuit has interpreted the case in a way that would allow states to abridge a business’s right to exclude people from its property.
    — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2021
  • But the First Amendment prohibits the government, not private companies, from abridging people's free speech rights.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Mar. 2020
  • By one estimate, The Witcher has lost nearly half its viewers since season one, and Hissrich’s seven-season plan has been abridged to five.
    — Scott Meslow, Vulture, 11 Feb. 2025
  • And Congress cannot pass any laws that abridge the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or the right to peaceably assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances.
    — Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 16 Apr. 2026
  • Because the state did this, Alabama argued, its map couldn’t possibly be abridging Alabamians’ voting rights on account of race.
    — Sophie Hills, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 June 2023

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