Sentence examples for abstract word from inspiring English sources

"Before this ordeal, torture was an abstract word to me.

"Before this ordeal, torture was an abstract word".

Perhaps he'll start with an abstract word puzzle, or maybe some paranoid yelping.

Mr Fillon's stern tone this week—"'bankruptcy' is no longer an abstract word", he said and the government's rapid response to the worsening outlook should help calm markets.

In unusually tough language, Mr Fillon said France had been overspending for 30 years, and that "bankruptcy" was "no longer an abstract word".

Ms. Brooks used clipped lines, abstract word patterns and random rhymes to capture her new radical tone and her more direct expression of social concern.

Abstract words make the brain do hard work.

I had never used abstract words to describe any writing purpose of mine.

Personal conversations only carried the dull stimuli of abstract words: hijacked planes and collapsed buildings.

Can meaningless and abstract words about terrible crimes have any weight whatsoever without direct legal and judicial consequences?

But her abstract words slide into screeches whenever the noisy guy in the ripped clothes dances too close to her.