Sample Sentences for

abide

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He couldn't abide their religious intolerance.

The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.  (source) Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

As you know, I'm quite the jealous type, and I can't abide her behavior.  (source) Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

Cruelty to prisoners the Nazis could abide. But not cruelty to animals.  (source) Alan Gratz, Prisoner B-3087, 2013

This is a time when citizens should be most loyal. Most law-abiding.  (source) Jeanne DuPrau, The City of Ember, 2003

I have abided by your wishes for so long… and it pains me to call, but I must speak to you.  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

He says he abides in Shaker Law.  (source) Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die, 1972

Demosthenes wasn't wrong to suspect that the Warsaw Pact was not abiding by the terms of the League.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

The warrior-hall dinn'd now; unto all Danes there waxed, To the castle-abiders, to each of the keen ones, To all earls, as an ale-dearth.†  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1895

Sir knight, said Arthur, for what cause abidest thou here, that there may no knight ride this way but if he joust with thee?†  (source) Thomas Malory, Le Morte D'Arthur, 1485

He, Rufus Buckley, former district attorney and symbol of the highest standards of law abidance, morality, and ethical conduct, was being hauled away like a common criminal.†  (source) John Grisham, Sycamore Row, 2014

Over this scene, however, lay an abidingly somber cloud, a presence oppressive and stifling which polluted the very wellsprings of her childhood and youth.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

I don't remember whose rule this is, but we abide by it.  (source) Jenny Han, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, 2014

The song is called "Abide With Me."

May each drop of it be a weapon and a shield against the presence of all evil and may it be a cleansing and blessing of this humble abode.  (source) August Wilson, The Piano Lesson, 1990

Busy Bee had hinted delicately that it was to be an abode for Royalty?  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

There now Dain son of Nain took up his abode, and he became King under the Mountain, and in time many other dwarves gathered to his throne in the ancient halls.  (source) J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

I preferred to think that the rooms we searched were more haphazard and less revealing than Owen imagined—after all, they were supposed to be the monastic cells of transient scholars; they were something between a nest and a hotel room, they were not natural abodes, and what we found there was a random disorder and a depressing sameness.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever...The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose...The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits...All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.†  (source) Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises, 1926

"Faith of Our Fathers," "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God," "Rock of Ages," "Abide With Me."  (source) Olive Ann Burns, Cold Sassy Tree, 1984

The said dragon abides there,  (source) Author Unknown, Beowulf, 1895

And women there are who become sad when the word goes over the fire of how the Evil Spirit came to select that valley for an abiding-place.  (source) Jack London, The Call of the Wild, 1903

Why did I walk through crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed Star which led the Wise Men to a poor abode!  (source) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843

I should have longed rather to deviate to a wood I saw not far off, which appeared in its thick shade to offer inviting shelter; but I was so sick, so weak, so gnawed with nature's cravings, instinct kept me roaming round abodes where there was a chance of food.†  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847

wherefore the direction of its place abideth not, but is some time under the one sky and anon under another, whereso if ye be minded that it is in the east, and wend thitherward, ye shall observe that the way of the road doth yet again turn upon itself by the space of half a circle, and this marvel happing again and yet again and still again, it will grieve you that you had thought by vanities of the mind to thwart and bring to naught the will of Him that giveth not a castle a direction from a place except it pleaseth Him, and if it please Him not, will the rather that even all castles and all directions thereunto vanish out of the earth, leaving the places wherein they tarried desolate and†  (source) Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, 1889

And we ask only that his soul enter the Kingdom Hall, there to abide forever.  (source) Robert Newton Peck, A Day No Pigs Would Die, 1972

Our love is deep and abiding.

Roman, thirty-two, inquisitive and outspoken, has a doctorate in biology from Stanford and an abiding distrust of conventional wisdom.  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild, 1996

Uncle Jack was one of the abiding pleasures of Maycomb.  (source) Harper Lee, Go Set a Watchman, 2015

Surely you know that the Church of the Final Atonement has a deep and abiding interest in the world of Hyperion.  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

The devastation was great during the Bad Times-and these came more often in precisely plotted spasms, shorter remissions, more terrible consequences after each attack-but the Earth abided and repaired itself as best it could.  (source) Dan Simmons, Hyperion, 1989

I would no longer in the bed abide,  (source) Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1350

…we feel the need to lean on something that abides, something that will never play us false–a reality, an absolute and everlasting truth.  (source) Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932

And now I repeat the words of the Apostle Paul, and 'now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.'  (source) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

All my campaign of self-sabotage had earned me was an unwinnable feud with Shelley and the deep and abiding resentment of my coworkers—who, let's face it, were going to resent me anyway, because no matter how many displays I knocked over or customers I short-changed, one day I was going to inherit a sizable chunk of the company, and they were not.  (source) Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, 2011

The aim of the Low, when they have an aim — for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives — is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal.  (source) George Orwell, 1984, 1949

It was an education she gladly shared with me, and though I had no abiding interest in interior or exterior design, her enthusiasm was catching.  (source) Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline, 1980

You couldn't understand Klotz's behavior without taking into account his nationality, that his predicament that day was uniquely the predicament of someone who had a deep and abiding respect for authority.  (source) Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers, 2008

An abiding interest in animals led him to the zoo business.  (source) Yann Martel, Life of Pi, 2001