Sentence examples for abject one from inspiring English sources

The city's parks had been closed since Sunday evening, and the morning scene was an abject one indeed.

What she seemed to be saying was the English word "sorry"—Binny thought how typical it was of the judge that among the few English words he had taught her was this abject one of apology.

What she seemed to be saying was the English word "sorry" — Binny thought how typical it was of the judge that among the few English words he had taught her was this abject one of apology.

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.

Abject, on her knees, devotion.

"An abject surrender," one advocate said of May's trip to Brussels, where E.U. lawmakers extended the Brexit deadline to Halloween.

It was no more than they deserved for a professional performance over an abject Yorkshire, one which has revealed them as a side of resolve and depth.

As we come to grips with our crumbling infrastructure and abject poverty, one cannot help but bring up President Obama's budget, which includes $1 trillion over the next thirty years for new nuclear weapons.

Also, the venture world tells us this story that one-third of venture-backed companies will become an abject loss and one-third will go sideways and one-third will be hits.

No, it is "a dreary, desolate, and indeed quite abject and distressing one; what we might call, by way of eminence, the dismal science".Carlyle was a fine one to talk.

Chaplin's life is a dramatic tale, framed by abject poverty at one end and bittersweet exile at the other, that has long seemed irresistible to producers yet remarkably stage-resistant.