Sentence examples for abject in from inspiring English sources

Bell, abject in the first innings, had practised with real intensity before play and his first ball, from Imran Khan, was met with a positive stride and the very middle of the bat.

Celtic were abject in every area of their play.

What was abject in Metropolis becomes pure enchantment.

She knew she would never be abject in his presence again.

If years can have moods, 2016 was savage in its anger and abject in its fear.

Scotland were abject in conditions that should have suited the underdog but they had no hunger or bite.

For all of my childhood in the 1960s, I lived in abject poverty in and around the Dorchester section of Boston.

He died in 1954, six years after Maria Angelina, in abject poverty in a Franciscan monastery.

He grew up in abject poverty in New Orleans and found himself either a witness to or in the middle of cuttings and shootings.

In January, against the underdog Mayorga, a wily brawler born in abject poverty in Nicaragua, the veteran Forrest made a rookie mistake.

Growing up in abject poverty in the refugee quarters of Kathmandu, Choying had a troubled childhood.