Abomination In A Sentence

Q: How to use abomination in a sentence?

1. This abomination must have an end. 2. To her sickness was the abomination of disease. 3. Quelle abomination de la désolation! 4. High hats are an abomination at opera or theater. 5. A modern battlefield is the abomination of abominations.

Definition of Abomination

(countable) An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit. [First attested around 1150 to 1350.] | (uncountable) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred [First attested around 1350 to 1470.] | (obsolete, uncountable) A state that excites detestation or abhorrence; pollution. [Attested from around 1350-1470 to the late 15th century.]

How To Use Abomination In A Sentence?

The male prig is the abomination of the earth, and should be the pet aversion of women.
Lowliness is an abomination to a proud man; so a poor man is an abomination to the rich.
When the choice of your dear friend falls on your pet abomination the case is hard indeed.
He followed his companions from church to church, till pictures became an abomination to him.
The things that are highly esteemed among men are an abomination in the sight of God.
For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
It would have been highly imprudent in any to show publicly their abomination of the legal officers of the proconsul.
To be either easy or comfortable had become an abomination to her, and at bottom this was the reason for her dissatisfaction.
Loose rocks in numbers on a very steep and narrow trail are always an abomination, and a numerous abomination at that.
The sight was the most disgusting abomination to this ancient and noble man, who could see into the future.
A stench and an abomination to government officials, she had been the joy of all sailormen, and the pride of the shipwrights who built her.
Liberal principles were an abomination to him; he hated and detested everything connected with Liberalism.

Pythagoras alone absented himself on that day, and fasted, holding in abomination the wicked custom of eating beans.
This abomination is commanded by divine authority, and he is in danger of gaol and damnation who shall honestly repudiate the detestable thing.
The only deduction we can draw from these two facts, both given on divine authority, is that god blesses that which is an abomination to him.
It struck me as an abomination at this very first moment, and I have never wavered in my judgment of it.
However, the human throat learns to accommodate itself to every thing in time, and the time came when even this abomination was longed for.
For one instant the two women stood there in that abomination of desolation, with death all around them, looking down at the baby, and smiling.
These restless, bellicose, dark-browed people are an abomination to the easy-going, contemplative Prince.
He would not have been opposed to the profession of arms if he had been captured early for the service, notwithstanding his abomination of bloodshed.
One wife is enough, two is too many, and more than two are an abomination everywhere, except in Utah and the halls of our national legislature.
Vile and depraved, the descendants of Adam went forth, perpetrating every act of wickedness, every abomination that the heart of man could devise.
King Eadgar is made to say that a temple of abomination had been destroyed to make way for the church of St. Peter.
I remember standing in the middle of it one frosty moonlight night, and it was impossible to believe that there were hundreds of human beings all around me there in the middle of that abomination of desolation.

Yesterday I trammed over again to the Vatican (a trolley car is an abomination in Rome, but so convenient).
They refused to open; and when he represented to them the abomination of their lives they dropped upon his head a crockful of dishwater, with the crock, by which his skull was fractured.
She has read or heard of all the novels of M. Zola, and her verdict is that modern fiction in France is the abomination of desolation.