Sample Sentences for
abundant
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    When food is abundant and cheap, people will eat more of it.  (source)
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    Animals like Dromaeosaurus, Oviraptor, Velociraptor, and Coelurus—predators three to six feet tall—must have been found here in abundance.  (source)
    abundance = large number
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    The remains of a picket drunkenly guarded the front yard— a "swept" yard that was never swept— where johnson grass and rabbit-tobacco grew in abundance.  (source)
    abundance = large amounts
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    Again Roy was astounded by the immense flatness of the terrain, the lush horizons, and the exotic abundance of life.  (source)
    abundance = large amount or quantity
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    I hesitated, and then, as I looked round me, I saw that the dust was less abundant and its surface less even.  (source)
    abundant = present in great quantity
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    His yams grew abundantly, not only in his motherland but also in Umuofia, where his friend gave them out year by year to sharecroppers.†  (source)
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    The peril of their situation was abundantly clear.†  (source)
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    It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life—it can be a superabundance of interest, and, except during her flashes of illness, Nicole was capable of being curator of it all.†  (source)
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    He did gaze, however, and said to himself that his features had never before possessed so rich a grace, nor his eyes such vivacity, nor his cheeks so warm a hue of superabundant life.†  (source)
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    But in your case, these biles are ....well, they're overabundant.†  (source)
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    The overabundance of sheep that had crowded the capital the winter before was gone, many of them moved back to the pastures of the coastal provinces, but many more of them slaughtered to feed the population.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "over-" in overabundance means excessive. This is the same pattern as seen in words like overconfident, overemphasize, and overstimulate.
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    It maybe means that what is needed to mitigate the foolishness or dissolve the deception is always superabundantly about and insistently offered to us—a black offer in Charing Cross; a gray in Place Pereires where you see so many kinds and varieties of beings go to and fro in the liquid and fog; a brown in the straight unity of Wabash Avenue.†  (source)
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    He would not believe that the Jesus Bible, with its absolutely ... abundance of words, gave no specific instructions to mothers of newborn twins.  (source)
    abundance = large quantity
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