Sentence examples for abject for from inspiring English sources
"abject for" is a grammatically correct phrase that can be used in written English
It usually means "utterly lacking or miserable in a particular quality or state." Example: The refugees' living conditions were abject for they lacked proper shelter and adequate food.
On the same day that Gareth Barry, 43 games for Manchester City, was so abject for England, Carlos Tevez, 40 games for Manchester City, scored twice for Argentina and looked as if he could play straight through until Christmas.
His team were abject for long spells and the last time they went so long without a victory goes back to an eight-match sequence from December 1989 to January 1990, in the days when a banner appeared at Old Trafford calling time on the pre-knighted Alex Ferguson.
His bizarre creations look to the abject for their horror, incorporating sexual imagery, death, human forms, and technology to twist bodies with machines and create aberrations full of contrasting ideas and emotions cold and inhuman but otherworldly beautiful.
"His name," Mr. Cohen writes, "became a tag for abject failure, for deviant, for skank.
Chronically without a boyfriend and insecure, Sherry always seems to be on the verge of offering an abject apology for something, for anything.
It consisted of expressions of repentance for misdeeds and abject appeals for mercy but also included some gestures of defiance, playing heavily on Bakunin's devotion to the Slavs and hatred of the Germans sentiments that were noted with interest and approval by the tsar.
All that did was a night letter from Brother, delivered at 8 01, reading: Thanks For Wonderful Hospitality and Again Abject Apologies For Those Awful Awakenings".
It was a rare moment of anxiety at the end of a very comfortable afternoon for Everton - and an abject one for Moyes - as the Toffees moved back to within one point of Arsenal with three games remaining.
It is almost all figurative, sometimes aiming for abject hilarity, sometimes for mordant gravity.
What gladiators were to ancient Rome, makeovers are to us today: bloody spectacles for the masses to watch the abject fight for their lives.
The book has an unwieldy third love-interest for the protagonist, a woman whose abject love for him creates the plot twist which saves Rank from the gallows.
