Sentence examples for were abortive from inspiring English sources
adjective
Produced by abortion; born prematurely.
Disputations were held with the leaders of the Anabaptist group in January and March 1525, but these were abortive.
A liberal government was established, and a Constituent Assembly was summoned, but the liberal moves were abortive.
Beginning in 1868, these nationalists launched a series of revolts that were abortive but persistent enough to convince Spain's government, in early 1898, to grant the island a measure of autonomy.
Although his attempts to enter the New South Wales Legislative Assembly were abortive, he was appointed to the Legislative Council in 1895 and served until 1901, when he was elected to the Senate.
The French landed on the Isle of Wight on 21 July, and again at Seaford on 25 July, but these operations were abortive, and the French fleet soon returned to blockading Boulogne.
Although flower buds were produced in vitro, most were abortive and wilted several weeks later.
There have been abortive attempts so far.
Another encourages fertility, another is believed to be abortive.
"This one is so cut right off it's abortive of any aspiration".
(An attempt to set up a European career, at the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, was abortive and brief).
And then the whole season was abortive because of the recession and Sept. 11.
