Sentence examples for abject to from inspiring English sources
'abject to' is not correct and cannot be used in written English
Instead, the correct phrase would be 'subject to.' For example: All applicants must agree to be subject to a background check.
Her show went from the bawdy and abject to the delicate and the monumental.
A raise from abject to survivable poverty for 30,000 tomato pickers is a victory to welcome, but not rest upon.
Scotland were abject, to the point where they would have been two goals behind had Fiodor Cernych not fluffed his lines when clean through.
The thrill is usually in the leap from the abject to the exalted: from lowbrow, comic narrative to high-minded poetry and philosophy.
If there is an element of the abject to some stories about Wagner fans, probably none captures that quality more than that of the 19th-century Austrian composer Anton Bruckner.
It's been a long, brown trip for the Zune: from its early days (mocked and abject) to its awkward years (deemed a dead end and money pit) it's been embattled and criticized, and rightly so.
Their journey from "euphoria to abject humiliation to anger, without knowing the reason why" (in Bunny's words) is played out among the white clientele and middle-class furnishings of an uptown restaurant.
Among the more cringe-worthy stories are those of Lisa Brennan-Jobs' mother, Chrisann Brennan, as she describes Jobs' reaction to her pregnancy — basically, to demonstrate abject anger to her and others in the room.
Mr. Zakaria went from abject apology to justification to reinstatement in a matter of days, all in real-time bulletins.
But Tories, Liberal Democrats and Labour alike must face up to their abject failure to create a postal system fit for the 21st century.
General McChrystal went on national television to make an abject apology to the "great people of Afghanistan".
