Sample Sentences for
abolish
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    You needed to surrender to some such ultimate purpose more fully, more unreservedly than you had ever done in the old familiar, peaceful days, in the old life that was now abolished and gone for good.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated
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    We have abolished parole in many states.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated (done away with)
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    The Bird's rules were abolished.  (source)
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    The constitutional monarchy had been abolished, replaced by a republic, led by a president of the republic.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated (done away with)
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    He would not dare abolish a personal prelature established by a previous Pope!  (source)
    abolish = eliminate
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    Prudence indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed.  (source)
    abolishing = eliminating (doing away with)
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    Equal partition abolishes emulation; and consequently labor.†  (source)
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    For those several times he had made her change "total abolishment" (vollstandige Abschaffung) to Vernichtung.†  (source)
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    Only a handful of students wanted to work for the Wave, and I ended up writing so many of the articles that I abolished bylines; it looked a little ridiculous having my name appear four times on the front page.  (source)
    abolished = eliminated (did away with)
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    The proposed Constitution doesn't abolish the State governments.  (source)
    abolish = eliminate
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    ...mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.  (source)
    abolishing = eliminating (doing away with)
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    But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.†  (source)
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    Toward the end of 1938, in the full flood of his passion, he began working on his magnum opus, the aforementioned pamphlet, in which for the first time he broached the idea—very cautiously, backing and filling with a circumspection bordering on the ambiguous—of "total abolishment."†  (source)
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