Sample Sentences for
abortion
(editor-reviewed)

abortion as in:  have an abortion

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  • If none of this had happened, Lauren would have probably gotten an abortion, and I would have never known about it.  (source)
    abortion = intentional ending of pregnancy
  • Go home and think of your first husband divorced and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out, go home and think of the dozen abortions you've had, go home and think of that and your damn Caesarean sections, too, and your children who hate your guts!  (source)
    abortions = intentional ending of pregnancies
  • Then he'd pack her off to some under-the-counter abortion farm, the way he did with Laura.  (source)
    abortion = to intentionally end pregnancies
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  • If a girl has had an abortion, for instance, that would rule her out.†  (source)
  • As with most bad poets, I was unaware of this fact, secure in my arrogance that the very act of creating gave some worth to the worthless abortions I was spawning.†  (source)
  • But in the 1980s American antiabortion activists began to target UNFPA.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "anti-" in antiabortion means against or opposite. This is the same pattern you see in words like antiviral, antiaircraft, and antisocial.
  • I heard Belinda had an abortion; I could never, ever, never do that!†  (source)
  • We shouldn't have to pay for stuff we hate, and I don't want to pay for a health care program that endorses legalized abortions.†  (source)
  • Graduation After my abortion I wrote to Tateh and said I didn't want to come back to Suffolk.†  (source)
  • We both knew her to be violently opposed to abortions, and she would very likely order me to quit school.†  (source)
  • I was performing a kind of self-abortion with those aspirin.†  (source)
  • She obviously had something to say, so I wished she would just get on with it, because she wasn't going to intimidate me no matter how many rumors I had heard about her: drug dealing, illegal abortions, knife wielding.†  (source)
  • Maybe she'll think it's some sort of abortion contraption!†  (source)
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