Sentence examples for to abject from inspiring English sources

"Then back to abject regret".

Some prisoners resort to abject supplication.

Forty minutes later, the joy turned to abject terror.

Furthermore, usurious loans by Japanese rice dealers contributed to reducing the peasantry to abject poverty.

As often as not tapestries were cut up or discarded or put to abject uses.

As he worries in English-subtitled Dutch, his mood ranges from irritable to defiant to abject.

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.

But Tories, Liberal Democrats and Labour alike must face up to their abject failure to create a postal system fit for the 21st century.

And she confessed to one abject failure: an inability to persuade him to stop driving, which he continued to do until two days before he died.

I began -- to my abject horror -- to long for my high school days.

To do nothing would seem to be abject appeasement, undermining ROK credibility and encouraging the North to act even more recklessly in the future.