Sentence examples for or abominable from inspiring English sources
(Glossary: a psak halacha is a sort of Jewish fatwa. To'ava means abomination or abominable. Chilul Hashem denotes blasphemy, essentially. Chas v'shalom has the sense of "God forbid").
Whether habitable or abominable, planets are inescapable.
When Stine creates the beloved Goosebumps books he actually conjures the villains – the killer lawn gnomes, wolfmen or abominable snowmen – into the real world.
Marie-Hélène's reaction was in keeping with what her husband wrote in his autobiography: "For her, things were either exciting or odious, marvelous or abominable, thrilling or unbearable; people were either adorable or hateful, friends or foes, angels or monsters".
The country videos, with their off-camera portrait of the artist as shaman or Abominable Snowman, are less effective: they have the feeling of a "Saturday Night Live" skit with no punch line.
In the Himalayan foothills, they're known as yeti or abominable snowmen.
"I'm really not a believer in chupacabras or Bigfoot or the Abominable Snowman".
"There are some who won't believe, because maybe Jon Snow could come back as, I dunno, a White Walker, or an abominable snowman or a cloud shaped like a rabbit.
In anticipation of Father's Day, this Sunday, you may find yourself remembering dad's drunken speech at your wedding or family vacations he might have planned better or downright abominable outfits he dressed you in as a child (which you would prefer to keep tucked away in a photo album).
The YETI site (www.phobe.com/yeti) captures the look and feel of the SETI site (www.setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu), down to the teasing come-on about the "small but tantalizing possibility" that the user will detect not alien life forms but "the faint footsteps of a hairy monster," otherwise known as Sasquatch, Bigfoot or the Abominable Snowman.
One of Armstrong's first jobs after the small step/giant leap is to scoop up a sample of moon dust so that "if the unmentionable yak or the Abominable Snowman were to emerge from the crater", he could leap aboard the lunar module and make his escape.
