Sentence examples for was abortive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Produced by abortion; born prematurely.
And then the whole season was abortive because of the recession and Sept. 11.
(An attempt to set up a European career, at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, was abortive and brief).
The campaign was abortive, and Charles then called a new parliament to grant the subsidies that he desperately needed for a second campaign.
To research the subject, Irish playwright Rory Mullarkey took himself off on a trip to Russia but he was mistaken for a spy by suspicious locals and the mission was abortive.
Microsoft, in the pre-iPad era, made the call that touch was next and that its core platform would support it properly; touch in Windows 7 was abortive at best.
In the tested heterologous cells, infection was abortive.
There have been abortive attempts so far.
"This one is so cut right off it's abortive of any aspiration".
A liberal government was established, and a Constituent Assembly was summoned, but the liberal moves were abortive.
Disputations were held with the leaders of the Anabaptist group in January and March 1525, but these were abortive.
Patel held that it would be abortive and would entail severe repression.
